Dollie The Sheep Case Study

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Dollie the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned by an adult cell by using the process of nuclear transfer. This process started by a cell is placed in a de-nucleated egg, the two cells fuse and then develop into an embryo.
Dollie was cloned at the Roslin Institute in 1997. The idea was developed from part of a research in producing the milk from farm animals. The development of cloning technology led to new ways to produce medicine and improving the understanding of genetics.
Cloned animals can be used to carry human traits that could lead to new developments in medicine. Also this could lead to human cloning, but this has not been legalized so far due to people's ethics. Although this process lead to a success in Dollie’s case, there

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