Jurassic World: Dominion, the sequel to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy; premiered worldwide in theaters last week. The film follows the original cast of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, as they hunt down their adopted daughter (played by Isabella Sermon) who is kidnapped by their enemies. The original members of Jurassic Park (1993), Dr. Ian Malcom, Dr. Alan Grant, and Dr. Elle Sattler, attempt to stop Biosyn’s horde of biologically created locusts from destroying the world. Though not much of a critical success, Dominion continues to rake in dollar after dollar, coming in at more than $500 million USD worldwide as of now. With brilliant CGI, beautiful dinosaurs and dinosaur fights; Dominion is much more of a visual spectacle than anything.

As mentioned above, the main villain of director Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion is none other than the Biosyn corporation, led by Lewis Dodgson (played by Campbell Scott), who have plagued the characters of Jurassic World (and Park) since the beginning. But what is Biosyn? Where did they come from, and how were they created? Here’s the history of Biosyn, explained.

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The Jurassic Park Era

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In the film Jurassic Park (1993), and author Michael Crichton’s book of the same name, a genetics company by the name of InGen is the company that begins cloning and creating dinosaurs for eccentric billionaire John Hammond's Jurassic Park attraction. InGen’s cloning processes were groundbreaking; taking dinosaur DNA preserved in amber coatings, then filling in the blanks of the DNA and bringing the terrible lizards back from extinction. Naturally, the money InGen began bringing in was enormous, and in that money-making process, other companies tried to hop in and do their own cloning to make more income. The most well-known of those rival companies is none other than Biosyn.

Known for stealing ideas from other corporations (and as the book mentions, having more lawyers than scientists), Biosyn, on the idea of Lewis Dodgson, head of research at the time; paid off one of Jurassic Park's employees (Dennis Nedry, played by Wayne Knight) to steal some dinosaur DNA while he was working, before it’s opening. As audiences can attest, Biosyn did not get their dinosaur DNA, as Dennis Nedry was killed by a dinosaur after the park collapsed and the creatures were freed from their caged habitats. A lot of turmoil stems from the situation, leading to:

The Lost World Era

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Taking place four years after the events of the original movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park is both a direct sequel to the novel and the movie. In the novel, an ailing John Hammond tells Dr. Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) about a secret island site, where the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park were engineered. Hammond then sends Goldblum, along with a crew, to the site (Isla Sorna) to document the dinosaurs left behind in their natural habitat. In the book, Lewis Dodgson (still head of research at Biosyn), secretly makes his way to Isla Sorna to collect dinosaur eggs, but again, fails spectacularly. Though this is book canon, the same cannot be said for the film's canon.

In the film adaptation for The Lost World, Biosyn plays no role and is not featured, with InGen being the main villains. Dodgson and Biosyn do make an appearance in the Jurassic Park video games, with Dodgson sending a team to Jurassic Park in order to retrieve the samples originally collected by Dennis Nedry. For the movies, as mentioned before, audiences do not see Biosyn featured again until:

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The Jurassic World: Dominion Era

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In the final film of the new Jurassic trilogy, Lewis Dodgson and Biosyn once again take their places as the big bads of the movie. The overarching plot is how a swarm of giant, genetically modified locusts (engineered by Biosyn) are destroying farms across the world. Elle Sattler and Alan Grant (played by Sam Neill and Laura Dern) return, and plan on going to Italy (Biosyn HQ) in order to stop the locust invasion. Meanwhile, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing (Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard), attempt to rescue their adopted daughter, Maisie Lockwood, after she is kidnapped by goons hired by Biosyn.

The two parties converge at Biosyn, where it is revealed that Lewis Dodgson is now the CEO of the company; they did create the locusts, and none other than Dr. Henry Wu (from the original Jurassic Park) is the one who had Maisie kidnapped, in order to stop the locusts. As expected, chaos breaks out and the dinosaurs are freed. Biosyn collapses, employees flee, all leading to the death of Lewis Dodgson. Everything mostly turns out well in the end, as Dr. Wu is able to stop the locusts, Owen and Claire get their daughter back, and Alan and Elle end up together.