In The Control Room

      Ellie Sattler here! At the Control Room, I met Arnold, the chief engineer, Dr. Wu, the chief genecist, Robert Muldoon, the park warden, and Dr. Harding, the vet he was going to treat the sick animals. Then, Ed showed us how to make a dinosaur. Soon, we reached the door signed Extraction. Ed used the security card to unlock the door. Inside the Extraction Room, we found many microscopes and A yellow stone. Then, I and Alan realize that the yellow stone is the amber. Ed introduce us to Dr. Henry Wu. He knows about genetic engineering. Then, I asked," Where do you get the dinosaur DNA?" He picked one of the amber and said," We got it from here." We got the DNA from the amber. He sit and look at the microscope. He explained to us this amber was made. The sap of the tree at the Jurrasic Period hardened and sometimes it caught insects, Some of the insects fed on dinosaur's blood, so the blood of the dinosaur was in the insect's body. Wu pushed a long needle into the amber and the insect. We're trying to collect dinosaur DNAs. Come to the next room.

         Wu led us to a much bigger room. Ther's a loud humming sound in that room. Wu introduced us to a technology called Hood Gene Sequencers and in the middle was Cray XMP supercomputers. These computers can work and repair the DNA from the blood.The chains of the DNA has to be repaired because we only can found a small piece of the DNA chain, Wu explained. Then, he went to the computer and we saw a tiny piece of DNA of dinosaurs. They got 3 BILLION  in a whole DNA chains. I asked," How do you complete the Dinosaur chains. Then, Wu explained that they used frog DNA to complete the chains. Alan aked to Wu, How do you know what you're making? Then, he simply said that just let it grow and they will know what type of dinosaur they making. Then, Wu led us to the Fertilization Room. The dinosaur embryos were put in the special shell egg. If, they wanted to hatch, we have to help them because this dinosaurs don't have any egg tooth. If the animal goes wrong, we have to inject syringes to the egg and kill them.