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Jurassic Park is a science fiction novel about Dr Adam Grant and his partner, Dr. Ellie Sattler, who go to an island off Costa Rica, John Hammond built a zoo there called Jurassic Park, holding dinosaurs that were cloned using DNA from dinosaurs found in prehistoric amber and frogs. Dennis Nedry, was bribed to steal dinosaur embryos for a rival of Hammond. When Nedry shuts down the park's security system, the park's other systems start to malfunction. Nedry is killed by an escaped dinosaur on his way to the docks, where he planned to deliver the embryos to a ship. The power outage left Grant, Malcolm, the park publicist Ed Regis, and Hammond's grandchildren, Tim and Lex, stuck in their tour cars outside the trex paddock. Lex notices that some dinosaurs got on the ship that had left the island. Grant turns on the generator to bring power to the fences keeping the dinosaurs in. Tim manages to reactivate the electric fences and calls the supply ship, and Gennaro commands the ship to turn around because of the velociraptors that have jumped aboard. The Costa Rican National Guard take everyone away, and blow up the island.
The major scientific theme in Jurassic Park is the Dangers of Biotechnology and Computers. If it weren’t for the malfunction with the Park’s security system …show more content…
In the books he says “And chaos theory teaches us…that straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating

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