PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Why was Dolly so important? 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, Dolly the sheep-the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell-is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-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.