Scientists have been attempting to clone animals since the
late 1800s, but it was only in 1996 that they successfully
cloned the first mammal:a sheep named Dolly.Building on
decades of research, lan Wilmut experimented with the
nucleus of a cell which is the part that contains DNA. A clone
has the same DNA as the original animal.so Wilmut had to
figure out how to transfer DNA from one cell to another.
To create Dolly, Wilmut took skin cells from the sheep he
wanted to clone. Then he took an egg from a different female
sheep. This egg already contained a nucleus with its own DNA.
but Wilmut wanted it to have the DNA of the sheep he was
cloning, In order to do that, he replaced the egg's nucleus with
a nucleus from the original sheep's skin cells Then, he placed
that new cell into another female sheep, who became
pregnant with the clone Dolly.
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Cloning mammals is scientifically possible, but
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