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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9409271" data-attributes="member: 6801845">You are pedantically correct.  So?  Do you want me to go into a textbook explanation of all the proteins, RNA, building blocks involved in gestation for a casual internet discussion?  I look at all the varieties of creatures that have roamed the earth.  An owlbear would not by any stretch of the imagination be one of the strangest creatures to ever exist.Yes, DNA is just one of many factors.  If we understood all the factors and how they worked together to create something very close to a T-Rex or an owlbear we could do it.  It may require an artificial egg for the first generation or two (assuming you want sufficient genetic diversity).  It wouldn't be an exact copy of a T-Rex and of course an owlbear is a fantasy creature so that's impossible, but it could be so close that we wouldn't know the difference from the skeletal structure and likely musculature, etc..We still don't understand how it all works any more than we understand how the human brain works.  Doesn't mean we can't understand it, or that once we do understand it that we couldn't create something that looked, and hooted, like an owlbear.  Even if DNA isn't the sole component we would need.</blockquote>