Introduction: Cloning

On February 22, 1997, the world learned about a secret project that scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland had been working on.

More than seven months earlier, on July 5, 1996, they had aided a Scottish Blackface sheep in giving birth to a Finn Dorset lamb codenamed 6LL3.

She was the first mammal to ever be cloned from the cells of an adult animal.


Pre-Introduction

Consider what you know about cloning:

  • When was the first mamal ever cloned?
  • What was special about Dolly the sheep?
  • How has cloning technology changed over the last 20 years?

Introduction


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