OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Dolly the Sheep
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Dolly the Dog
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Dolly the Duck
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Dolly the Cow
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Dolly the Sheep was announced to the word with a paper published in 1997, in the journal Nature, succinctly titled “Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dolly started her life as a single cell in a test tube taken from the mammary gland of a Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell from a Scottish Blackface Sheep. Once normal development was confirmed in a lab at six days, the embryo was transferred into a surrogate mother.