• BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    We are wildly far away from having the technology to do that. A single genome wouldn’t provide the genetic diversity for a sustainable population. We would need hundreds or thousands of genomes for each species to ensure that non-related individuals could mate.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      We absolutely have the technology, we just don’t have the money to gather the data. Or we haven’t chosen to allocate it.