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The way we are supposed to be able to bring back extinct species is by using a way that scientists found called “CRISPR” tecnology. Obviously “CRISPR” is an acronym, but for what? Well CRISPR means: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. We may even be able to use the same prosess to bring animals out of endangerment. There are some benefits to bringing them back too! (i’m not gonna count ‘because it would be cool’, but I Mean, how cool would it be to just have a huge wooly mammoth walking around!) A couple of the benefits are that it could help technological advances by helping scientists discover things about animals that they could not POSSIBLY find out before and in turn helping out with genetic engineering. There

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