PATHOLOGY

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: -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: -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-5: -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.