Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1991, which was later adapted as a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Written as a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering (in much the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein), it explores the consequences of an attempt to re-create certain species of dinosaur to serve as amusement park attractions.

Notes

While the cinematic incarnation of Jurassic Park used ostrich eggs as vessels to facilitate expression, the novel version very specifically utilized "a new plastic with the characteristics of an avian eggshell." The plastic was called "millipore," created by an eponymous subsidiary of InGen.http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345370775/ref=sib_vae_pg_66/104-4202022-7879160?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=millipore&p=S028&twc=1&checkSum=Xnx%2F5metEicEorJ2Qyg9bdc3pJNNN%2BaGSdc%2F16pqqdU%3D#reader-page

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References

• Cano R.J., Poinar H.N., Pieniazek N.J., Acra A., Poinar G.O. Jr. (1993). Amplification and Sequencing of DNA from a 120?135-Million-Year-Old Weevil. Nature, 363:536?538
• Weaver, R. F. (2002). Molecular Biology. McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 76. ISBN 0-07-234517-9
• Noonan, J.P., et. al. Genomic sequencing of Pleistocene cave bears. Science 309(5734):597-9, July 2005.

Further reading

The Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Or How to Build a Dinosaur. Rob DeSalle and David Lindley. BasicBooks, New York, 1997. xxix, 194 pp., illus. $18 or C$25.50. ISBN 0-465-07379-4.

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