Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>> It would make widespread destruction acceptable if we
>> could capture
>> the genomic variation of all affected species and document their
>> ecological
>> interactions such that we knew we could reconstruct it later.
>
(...)
>
> But I also wouldn't assume that reduction of the genome
> alone would contain all of the information carried by a
> species. A genome needs a context in
> which to operate; some of the information may be encoded
> in the way the genome interacts with what surrounds it.
>
I think the idea is that we might be able to store the DNA
from endangered species, so that, some day when we are
wiser and we are able to colonize the space, we may
return Earth to their former occupants.
Alberto Monteiro
