AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dolly was important because she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth proved that specialised cells could be used to create an exact copy of the animal they came from.

Detailed explanation-2: -On July 5, 1996, scientists at Scotland’s Roslin Institute announced that they had successfully cloned the first animal from an adult cell-a sheep named Dolly. Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dolly, female Finn Dorset sheep that lived from 1996 to 2003, the first clone of an adult mammal, produced by British developmental biologist Ian Wilmut and colleagues of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Detailed explanation-4: -Everyone knows Dolly, but less known is that the first cloned animal success was a tadpole in the 1950s.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dolly. The world’s first cloned mammal has gone on to greener pastures. Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, died on 14 February. Her caretakers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland euthanized the 6-year-old sheep after diagnosing an incurable lung tumor.