The park's staff include engineer John Arnold, biotechnologist Henry Wu, game warden Robert Muldoon, public relations manager Ed Regis and veterinarian Gerry Harding. Hammond also brings along his grandchildren, Tim and Alexis 'Lex' Murphy, who join the tour group. Malcolm, having been consulted before the park's creation, is especially emphatic in his prediction that the park will collapse, as it is an unsustainable simple structure bluntly forced upon a complex system with too many unpredictable variables. They stand in counterbalance to a famous mathematician and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, and a lawyer representing the investors, Donald Gennaro, who are pessimistic about the park's prospects. To placate them, Hammond uses Grant and Sattler as fresh consultants. Recent incidents in the park have spooked Hammond's investors. Ian Malcolm created dragon curves to simulate the actions that were to take place in the park. To control the population, all specimens on the island are lysine-deficient and X-Ray sterilized females.

Gaps in the genetic code have been filled in with 'compatible' reptilian, avian, or amphibian DNA.

The animals have been recreated using damaged dinosaur DNA found in blood inside of gnats, ticks, and mosquitoes fossilized and preserved in amber. The preserve is revealed to be Jurassic Park, a theme park showcasing cloned dinosaurs. Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist graduate student Ellie Sattler are contacted to confirm the identification, but are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond-founder and chief executive officer of International Genetic Technologies, or InGen-for a weekend visit to a 'biological preserve' he has established on Isla Nublar. One of the species behind the attacks is identified as a Procompsognathus. In 1989, a series of strange animal attacks occur in Costa Rica, including a worker severely injured on a mysterious construction project on the nearby island of Isla Nublar.

3 Prehistoric animals featured in the novel.

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