HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Dolly was cloned from a cell taken from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish Blackface sheep. She was born to her Scottish Blackface surrogate mother on 5th July 1996.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A Sheep Named Dolly-A Look at the First Cloned Animal Twenty Years Later! 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep-the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell-is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Originally code-named “6LL3, ‘’ the cloned lamb was named after singer and actress Dolly Parton.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland.