Jurassic World: Dominion is the third and final film in the Jurassic Park/World franchise. As a big fan of the Jurassic franchise, I was excited about this new movie.
Visually, the dinosaurs look spectacular and the overall action scenes are great. The overall nostalgia from the original Jurassic Park is a treat. However, I felt that the actual storyline was a bit underwhelming.
Major positives: fantastic Legacy character’s make a wonderful return. I especially enjoyed the performances from Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum. The cinematography is also excellent with plenty of awesome high budgeted action sequences throughout the film. IMAX is the way to go for this film.
Jurassic World: Dominion is a worth seeing if you are a fan of the series. I wouldn’t say it is the best one but it’s fun!
Summary: The Jurassic era has two generations unite for the first time: Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill. In this movie dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome animals.
Let’s get to dissecting! The focus will be on genetics.
What is Biosyn?
Biosyn, or Biology Synthetics Technologies, Inc., is a genetics company. It’s similar to InGen from the original trilogy of movies. This bioengineering company is responsible for genetically cloning dinosaurs and houses a research center and hatchery.
So can humans and dinosaurs coexist? No! After the dinosaurs became extinct, nearly 65 million years passed before humans appeared on Earth. However, small mammals were alive at the time of the dinosaurs. Vertebrate paleontologists suggests that birds are direct descendants of one line of carnivorous dinosaurs.
What is DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of organisms and viruses.
Have we found dinosaur DNA?
In 2020, researchers discovered cartilage that they believe contains dinosaur DNA. (Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz206). The cartilage, from the Hypacrosaurus species of the Cretaceous Period is over 70 million years old but has been calcified and fossilized, which may have protected the inside of the cells. The researchers mentioned that their data “support the hypothesis that calcified cartilage is preserved at the molecular level in this Mesozoic material, and suggest that remnants of once-living chondrocytes, including their DNA, may preserve for millions of years.”
Could we create a dinosaur?
Paleontologist Jack Horner, said “we think we have found signals for DNA and that there might be tiny bits left, but not enough to use to make a dinosaur. We can get collagen and some dinosaur proteins, but not all the material we need. (www.livescience.com)
Ok so let’s pretend we could clone dinosaurs – this would be the process:
According to National Geographic, “Dinosaurs would be aliens in our world. They evolved tens or hundreds of millions of years ago, when Earth was much different. The continents were in different places, the atmosphere was different, the plants were different. Maybe they couldn’t cope at all.” But, paleontologists mention the simple but powerful truth: Dinosaurs already coexist with us in the form of birds. “Turkeys, ostriches, and eagles are not really that different in their looks or behaviors than extinct dinosaurs such as Velociraptor.”