Dolly the sheep
Famous genetic duplicate
Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, born in 1996 at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
Her creation demonstrated that specialized cells could be reprogrammed to generate an entire organism—a breakthrough in developmental biology.
Named after Dolly Parton, she lived until 2003 and remains a cultural touchstone for debates about cloning technology.
- cloneGenetically identical organism
- carbon copyIdentical reproduction of something
- cloningMaking identical copies
- genetic engineeringDeliberate DNA modification
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
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- Cloningclone, human cloning, gene cloning, reproductive cloning, animal cloning
- discoveriesbreakthrough, scientific discovery, finding, uncovering, detection
- geneticsDNA, allele, genotype, genes, gene
Dolly the sheepidentical twin
Sibling sharing exact genetics
fraternal twin · mutt · mongrel · crossbreed · mutant
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