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Jurassic Park Study Guide

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by Michael Crichton
About 75 pages (22,371 words)
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Chapter 19 Summary

The tour begins for the group. They are shown around the facility, beginning in the museum area. The children are further introduced as Tim, a boy of about 11, and his younger sister, Alexis. Their family life is not great. Tim is shown, through a flashback with his father, to be very bright and quite knowledgeable about dinosaurs. He recognizes Dr. Grant, because he owns the book Grant wrote for children about dinosaurs. The group enters the laboratory area and is taken through the process of how DNA is extracted from amber (petrified tree sap, which has captured and fossilized dinosaur-blood-sucking mosquitoes). They see how the DNA is processed, how dinosaurs are created, how their embryonic development is monitored in a hatchery. Finally, they meet a baby raptor in the nursery, where freshly.....

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