Biosyn is a fictional
genetics company from the
novels Jurassic Park and its sequel
The Lost World.
Biosyn was one of the competitors of
InGen, the genetics company of John Hammond and the
engineers behind Jurassic Park, and focused on many similar
projects. In the first book, the company was engineering a new pale
trout with the
Department of Fish and
Game of
Idaho. Biosyn
was working on ways for the trout to be easier to spot in streams,
not die of
sunburn, and
to change its soggy and tasteless flesh.
Due to setbacks and
the competition with InGen,
Lewis Dodgson calls an urgent meeting to
discuss with the Biosyn Board of Directors InGen and their
genetic engineering of dinosaurs.
According to Dodgson, there will be nothing illegal about obtaining
the
DNA; however, Dodgson pays
Dennis Nedry $1.5 million to steal the embryos of 15 species from
Isla Nublar.
Nedry gets eaten by a dinosaur while the stolen embryos are lost
forever.
In the novel
The Lost World, Dodgson arrives
on the island of
Isla
Sorna or "Site B". This time he comes to steal dinosaur eggs,
along with two cohorts, Howard King and George Baselton. The plan
fails, and Dodgson and his team are killed.
In the movie
version of
Jurassic Park, Dodgson is seen
giving Nedry the means to steal the embryos, but Biosyn is not
mentioned. Neither Biosyn nor Lewis Dodgson are seen or mentioned
in
The Lost World film; they are replaced by
InGen.
Biosyn is the chief human villain in the
Jurassic Park video games.