dolly the sheep

Dolly the sheep


Dolly, the cloned sheep, was born in Scotland on July 5, 1996. She is the most famous sheep in the world.
Dolly was created by Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut, and was the first mammal in history to be cloned from an adult cell. To create Dolly, the Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, used a cell from the udder of a six-year-old sheep in the final stage of pregnancy. The key to Dolly's success was to make the nucleus of the donor cell "quiet" so that it stopped behaving like an udder cell and could be reprogramm...