Dolly the Cloned Sheep

The first mammal to be cloned was a sheep named dolly. Dolly name came form Dolly Parton. Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell cloned her from an adult somatic cell using nuclear transfer. Dolly was made from a mammary gland. The two men that preformed this experiment was colleagues at the Roslin Institute which was also associated with the University of Edinburgh. Somatic cell is a biological cell that forms the body of an organism. During the process of nuclear transfer the cell from the adult cell is transferred into an unfertilized oocyte that has had it's nucleus removed. Dolly was born on July 5 1996 and she died when she was six years old, on February 14 2003. She died from a lung disease. While Dolly was alive she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and they had six lambs. Bonnie was the first lamb she had, he was born April 1998. The following year she had a set of twins lamb named Sally and Rosie. The next year she had triplets named Lucy, Darcy and Cotton. By the age of four Dolly had arthritis, but it was successfully treated with anti-inflammatory drugs. Dolly legacy goes on for being the first successfully cloned mammal.

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