Genome brings extinct man to "life" – answers

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1. How have the scientists reconstructed this man? by using the nuclear genome of an extinct human
2. Where has the man’s name, Imak, come from? Greenlandic (language of Greenland)
3. What did they analyse to get the genome? a tuft of hair
4. Where does the team of scientists work? at the University of Copenhagen
5. What do they need to ‘get out’? the genetic code
6. How does the reporter describe the genome reconstruction? as a blueprint of how the man looked and lived
7. Name 3 features that the reconstruction shows. any 3 of hairline, brown eyes, dark skin, blood type and teeth
8. What is unusual about his teeth? they are shovel-shaped
9. Who can now learn more about extinct cultures? museums around the world
10. How can reconstruction benefit medical research? it can give information about genetic diseases
11. What was required in the past for reconstruction? frozen DNA
12. What is the ‘joke’ behind the final comment? the man is not actually brought back to life as a living human being ‘at least on paper’