What mistake did the Jurassic Park team make that allowed the dinosaurs to reproduce?

In the Jurassic Park novel and the movie it is stated that when genes from the dinosaur genome were lost, the frog-version of those genes were built into the new dinosaurs. In the story, the presence of these frog-genes gave the dinosaurs the ability to switch sexes and reproduce at their leisure.
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What Jurassic Park got wrong about dinosaurs?

Dinosaurs probably didn't spit venom

Giant frills open on their neck. The Dilophosaurus spits a sticky, venomous goo in the prey's face, rendering their prey blind. The end is nigh. It makes for a great movie scene (or two), but it's a work of fiction.
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How did the Jurassic Park dinosaurs reproduce?

Later in the film, it turns out that yes, the prehistoric reptiles did find a way to mate. Of course, the filmmakers had trouble swallowing the idea that female creatures could create life without a male, so their plot twist was some frog DNA that enabled some of the dinosaurs to change their sex.
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What have the Jurassic Park scientists done to control the breeding in the park?

Dr. Wu explains that, to prevent breeding, their dinosaurs are sterilized and all of them are engineered to be female.
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How did the dinosaurs have babies in Jurassic World?

In Jurassic World, past regulations on dinosaur breeding were eliminated, as explained by director Colin Trevorrow. Instead, the dinos were treated like any animal in a zoo with males and females and placed in a controlled breeding environment.
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Why can t the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park breed and reproduce?

...in the novel...

Dr. Wu explains that to prevent breeding, their dinosaurs are sterilized and engineered to be female.
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Is Raptor Blue a girl?

Blue is a female Velociraptor that appears in Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Jurassic World: Dominion. She is the oldest of the four raptors in her pack consisting of her sisters, Delta, Echo, and Charlie.
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What mistake did the Jurassic Park team make that allowed the dinos to reproduce?

In the Jurassic Park novel and the movie it is stated that when genes from the dinosaur genome were lost, the frog-version of those genes were built into the new dinosaurs. In the story, the presence of these frog-genes gave the dinosaurs the ability to switch sexes and reproduce at their leisure.
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Is the Indominus Rex a girl?

If you've seen Jurassic World, you know that the fearsome antagonist, a hybrid beast called Indominus Rex, is female. All the dinosaurs are female, we're told in the Jurassic Park series of movies, to prevent breeding.
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Is the mosasaurus a boy or a girl?

In Jurassic World, while not explicitly stated, it seems to hold true, given that all the mentioned "character" dinosaurs — the raptor pack, the Indominous, the Rex, the mosasaurus — are referred to as female.
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How did the T-Rex reproduce?

Dinosaurs must have had sex to reproduce. As in nearly all modern-day reptiles, males would have deposited sperm inside females, which would later lay fertilized eggs containing developing dinosaur embryos.
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How did Blue have a baby?

As explained by Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) in Dominion, Blue's DNA contains extracts from monitor lizards. This genetic gap-filler enables parthenogenesis – the spontaneous development of embryos from unfertilized eggs.
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What dinosaur killed the bad guy in Jurassic Park?

Nedry gets lost in the storm and gets killed by a dilophosaurus. Nedry's actions have effects long after his death. Without power, the island descends into chaos. Nedry and the storm are the two major catalysts in the events of Jurassic Park.
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Why can't we make dinosaurs like in Jurassic Park?

Bottom line: We can't recreate dinosaurs from their DNA because the DNA no longer exists. DNA disintegrates in about 7 million years, and dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.
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Where did Jurassic World go wrong?

Jurassic World Couldn't Commit To One Direction

As well as the introduction of increasingly ludicrous plot devices like basement dinosaur auctions, military-trained raptors, and human cloning, the Jurassic World trilogy also suffered from wild tonal shifts.
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Is Maisie part raptor?

There's a theory that Maisie may be part dinosaur, since she was cloned and due to some of her mannerisms; but Colin Trevorrow's confirmation that human and dinosaur DNA will not be mixed, and has not been in the past; this theory is debunked.
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Do Owen and Claire have a kid?

Owen and Claire reconcile their relationship, and become adoptive parents to Maisie, who is revealed to be a genetic clone of Lockwood's deceased daughter.
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Why did the Indominus Rex eat its sibling?

The surviving Indominus had very poor social skills, killing and eating her sibling for unknown reasons and slaughtering various animals out of enjoyment. Her only positive relationship with other animals, a group of four Velociraptors, was ended immediately when one of the raptors defied an order.
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Why did Jurassic Park get Velociraptors wrong?

They Were Human-Sized

As interesting as this is on the screen, it isn't an accurate portrayal. Real velociraptors were around half a meter tall, making them closer in size to a large dog or wolf than a human adult. Of course, with those razor-sharp teeth, bumping into one would still be a terrifying encounter.
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Can dinosaurs reproduce asexually?

Dinosaur reproduction also required a mate; evidence of sexual dimorphism and courting displays have been found from fossil scrapings in sandstone and feathers on dinosaurs that lacked flight.
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What was wrong with the dinosaur in Jurassic Park?

Just before the endorsement team's tour of Jurassic Park, a Triceratops fell ill from eating West Indian Lilac, confusing their berries for gastroliths. During the endorsement team's tour, Dr. Gerry Harding had game warden Robert Muldoon tranquilize the ill individual so it wouldn't be aggressive around him.
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Does Blue remember Owen?

Before she had Beta, it could've been that Blue had disregarded the pair's history, and she was ready to move on, as most animals do. But Jurassic World Dominion proved that Blue was still a special creature who knew Owen was important to her.
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Is the Indoraptor a girl?

Indoraptor prefers to be quadrupedal, though he can walk, stand and run bipedally on occasion. The gender for Indoraptor is a male.
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Which raptor dies first in Jurassic World?

This means that it was Delta that was tazed. In the Jurassic World Special Edition Junior Novelization Delta is the first raptor of the Jurassic World Velociraptor Pack to die instead of Charlie. Furthermore, due to her death in the novelization, Echo is the one that kills Hoskins instead of Delta.
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