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What date was dolly the sheep cloned?

Dolly was cloned in 1996 and was the first cloned mammal. Dolly died in 2003 at the age of six.


What was the first life form created by intentional cloning?

The first life form created by intentional cloning was a sheep named "Dolly." Dolly was cloned in 1996 at the Roslin Institute in Scotland using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.


What was the name of the first sheep to be cloned using an adult egg?

The first cloned placental mammal was Dolly the Sheep. She was named after the ample chested singer dolly parton because the DNA for her egg was taken from a mammary cell of the cloned animal.


What kind of cells was used to make Dolly?

Dolly the cloned sheep was the first example of an animal cloned with DNA from a somatic cell (a cell which is not a gamete/sex cell). Specifically, Dolly was cloned from a cell of a sheep's mammary gland.However, the complete somatic cell itself was not a part of the embryo that became Dolly. Instead, scientists removed the DNA from an unfertilized sheep oocyte (a precursor to an egg) and inserted the DNA taken from the mammary gland cell in its place. This meant that only the nucleus from the mammary gland cell was actually used to create Dolly.


Compare the genes in dolly and the sheep from which she was cloned?

Dolly and the sheep from which she was cloned have the same genes because Dolly was cloned using the genetic material from the donor sheep's somatic cell. The genetic material in both animals is identical, as Dolly's DNA was derived from the donor sheep's DNA.