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In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
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Roslin, Midlothian
Village in Midlothian, Scotland
Roslin is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 11 kilometres (7 mi) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river North Esk.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dolly (sheep)
First cloned mammal (1996–2003)
Dolly was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland. Her cloning proved that a cloned…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Cloning
Process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without a mate is known as parthenogenesis.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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