Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Dolly the Sheep


Dolly the sheep was born on the 5 of July, 1996 and died on the 14 of February, 2003.

Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully cloned from a specific adult cells.Bellow is a diagram showing the proses of cloning Dolly the sheep and a brief description of the proses to clone Dolly the sheep. First you need a donar cell that's taken from a sheep's udder and an egg cell from an adult female sheep. Then the nucleus of the egg is removed. These two cells are fused using an electric shock. The fused cells begins dividing normally. Then the embryo is placed into the uterus of a suragent mother. Then the embryo develops normally into a lamb.

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