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What is the main obstacle to cloning the woolly mammoth.

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Cloning of mammals has improved in the last two decades, but no viable mammoth tissue or its intact genome has been found to attempt cloning. According to one research team, a mammoth cannot be recreated, but they will try to eventually grow in an "artificial womb" a hybrid elephant with some woolly mammoth traits
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A lack of suitable genetic material.

Step-by-step explanation:

most of the DNA has been destroyed after being frozen for so long.

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