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    cell. And from that revolutionary discovery, scientists use this way to artificially produce living creatures that even today are being used. Dolly the sheep died many years ago and many have wondered about the ethics of cloning an animal, whether or not Dolly’s “sister clones” were actually genetic matches and whether cloning is a bad way of producing a living creature and shouldn’t be further researched. Cloning within animals is still harmful and unethical towards the animal. Through many tests, scientists have discovered distinctive clues to help them figure out the mystery of a clone’s shortened life. One of the biggest yet subtle…

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    When Dolly, the first cloned sheep came in the news, cloning interested the masses. Not only scientists but also, even general people started to pay attention to knowing about how cloning is conducted and what pros and cons it has. The news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep Dolly has caused an outburst of ethical concerns. These concerns are not about Dolly, but rather about the possibility of cloning human beings. For the most part, however, the ethical concerns are being lightened,…

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    In 1996 Dolly the sheep was born. However, she was not born like most other sheep. Instead, Dolly was cloned from the DNA of an adult sheep. Although Dolly seemed healthy, she died in 2003 after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made it to a live birth. Would it be safe to take that chance when experimenting with cloning human babies? Some people seem to believe so, and agree with the idea of cloning to have a child. These people…

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    Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned using the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in the world. The sheep was created by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the first cloned animal to be reproduced from mature reproductive cells using the nuclear transfer method. Cloning became the most significant milestone for modern biotechnology. The technique was invented in the late 20th century but has developed strongly…

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    Dolly changed modern science and our ideas about biology in many ways. For most scientists the birth of Dolly overturned the assumption that the whole process of cell differentiation was irreversible. Life is started as a fertilized egg and the cell divides and multiplies and by the time we are born, there are maybe 200 different cell types, each differentiated into a particular role that is determined by the proportion of active genes within the cell. Many Scientists assumed that this process…

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    Application of clone Dolly the sheep, born in 1996, was the first mammal have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. However, she died of a progressive lung disease more common in older sheep at a young age. She lived six and a half years while most sheep can live to 11 or 12 years of age. Through the post mortem, it is discovered that Dolly had telomeres that are shorter than others of the same age in the same species. Telomeres are pieces of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that shorten…

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    Born on January 19, 1946, Dolly Parton has had 70 years to live love learn and laugh about her childhood and rural upbringing(“Parton” 1). Growing up Parton did not have much money but they still had a happy life she even said herself that “while we didn’t have much money we had a good life”(Dawn 1). Parton was the fourth of 12 children and her mother had one miscarriage(Freeman 1). Her parents Robert and Avie Lee always new that there was something special about her and believed she could do…

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    Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Her father was named Robert Lee Parton. He worked in construction but he also was a subsistence farmer. Her mother, Avie Lee Caroline, stayed at home with Dolly and her siblings. Dolly described her family as “dirt poor”. Her father made very little money , in fact when Dolly was born her father paid the doctor with a bag of cornmeal. Dolly was the fourth born of twelve children. Her entire family lived in a rustic…

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    She is the queen of country music. She draws you attention by her outrageous hair, makeup, and clothes. Well, her name is Dolly Parton. Parton has just a unique personality to her. The way to describe her in a good way is extreme southern bell. Dolly Parton has had a huge impact on country music. She always was singing folk or genuine country music. Her life revolved around country music and she wanted to share it with the world. She just had a way of life different from other peoples and…

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    “20 Years after Dolly the Sheep, Questions Remain about Cloning” On July 5th 1996 the very first cloned mammal was born Blackface Sheep 6ll3 or Dolly was created by the Roslin Institute in Scotland Dolly was brought into existence using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer Somatic cell nuclear transfer is when the nucleus which contains most of the genetic information in a cell is taken from a cell in the mammary gland of an adult animal. Then the nucleus of an unfertilized egg is…

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