Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.
Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, and her birth in 1996 was a major scientific breakthroughProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist and best known as the leader of the research group that cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, and her birth in 1996 was a major scientific breakthrough.
He studied animal science at the University of Edinburgh and then went on to do a PhD in reproductive physiology at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.Dolly was born the following year and lived for six and a half years, producing six lambs of her own.
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