Theoretically....yes, in actuality....doubtfull. Most clones still have to have a surrogate mother to carry the fetus to term, since there is no other mammoths around this might be a bit of a challenge,
Last I heard they were looking towards elephants as surrogates (Specifically Asian Elephants who are most closely related)
Kazufumi Goto is heading a team with a 2 prong approach -
The first part of the team is searching for X-chromosome-bearing mammoth sperm with intact DNA to inject it into an Asian elephant egg to produce a hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo. The hybrid embryo, if viable, would be implanted into an adult female Asian elephant, which would then give birth to the first-ever half-extinct creature. Only Xchromosome-bearing sperm would be used to ensure that the offspring was female. Once the female hybrid reached sexual maturity, she would be impregnated with more X-chromosome-bearing mammoth sperm and so on, until a creature genetically close to Mammuthus primigenius was procured. Each successive generation would be increasingly “woollier,” increasingly less elephant, and increasingly more “mammoth.”
second approach,
The second part of the team is seeking the cloning approach (Like Dolly the sheep).
resurrect a mammoth from intact DNA that it hopes to find preserved in the nucleus of a somatic cell from a frozen mammoth. Once the requisite genetic material is in hand, the team will fuse or inject the mammoth’s genome into an enucleated Asian elephant egg, jolt it with electricity to induce fertilization mode, and implant the resulting embryo in an Asian elephant surrogate for gestation.
Why man chooses to play God I have no clue!!!!! JMHO
