Wealthy businessman John Hammond has used cutting-edge genetic engineering to clone dinosaurs on a remote island off Costa Rica, Isla Nublar. He intends to open the world's most extraordinary theme park. To gain approval and funding, he invites a team of experts: paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm, and a lawyer, Donald Gennaro.
The dinosaurs are recreated from DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber. To control the population, Hammond's scientists engineer all dinosaurs to be female and require the amino acid lysine from their food, making them theoretically dependent on humans.
Using their knowledge of dinosaur behavior and park systems, Grant and the children manage to contact the mainland and get the park's power back online. They reach the visitor center to escape via helicopter. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton EPUB
During a tour, a powerful storm hits, and a disgruntled park employee (Dennis Nedry) shuts down the security system to steal dinosaur embryos for a rival company. With the fences off, the dinosaurs escape.
The visitors are hunted. Grant and the two children (Hammond's grandchildren, Lex and Tim) navigate the park avoiding velociraptors, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and other dinosaurs. They realize the raptors are highly intelligent and have been testing the fences for weaknesses. Alan Grant, paleobotanist Dr
Dr. Malcolm warns that the park is doomed by "chaos theory" — a complex system like Jurassic Park cannot be perfectly controlled, and tiny errors will cascade into disaster.
The group soon discovers the fatal flaw: the dinosaurs have been breeding. The assumption that they are all female was wrong, as some frogs (used to fill DNA gaps) can change sex in a single-sex environment. The lysine contingency is also flawed; dinosaurs get lysine from eating other animals. The dinosaurs are recreated from DNA extracted from
In the end, Hammond's dream is destroyed. The park is abandoned, and the dinosaurs are left to die or be killed (via a contingency plan to poison their food). The survivors learn that life cannot be contained or controlled — it "finds a way."