Compléter 238-testVersion en ligne 238-test par Farhad Key 1 woolly predicts genome when written molecular behemoth driving speculation The recipe for making any creature is in its DNA . So last November , geneticists published the near - complete DNA sequence of the long - extinct mammoth , there was much about whether we could bring this back to life . Creating a living , breathing creature from a sequence that exists only in a computer's memory is not possible right now . But someone someday is sure to try it , Stephan Schuster , a biologist at Pennsylvania State University , University Park , and a force behind the mammoth genome project .