Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA; the building blocks of life. A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a living thing, and sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find…”
-Animated DNA Strand, Jurassic Park, 1993
So began the explanation of how a drop of blood extracted from a 100-million-year-old mosquito could be used to create a living-dinosaur theme park in the 1993 Steven Spielberg movie “Jurassic Park” and provide fodder for its multiple sequels. Based on Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel, the premise of the science fiction/action movie is that ancient mosquitos preserved in amber could contain enough DNA for scientists to recreate dinosaurs.
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As insects increasingly become resistant to pesticides, scientists seek innovative ways to decrease their numbers. 
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