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Title: Cloning
Words: 467
INTRODUCTION
In February 1997, at the Roslin Institute, Dr Wilmut and his colleagues made it known
to the world that they had successfully cloned a lamb. Using a Scottish Blackface
ewe's enucleated oocyte, they injected a Finn Dorset nucleus to form a new cell. Soon
after the new cell was placed into a surrogate mother, it gave birth to a lamb named
Dolly. This was thought of as being scientifically impossible to clone an adult mammal,
but the product of Dolly proved otherwise.
THE CREATION OF DOLLY
The first step to cloning Dolly was taking a cell from a Finn Dorset ewe and placing it
in a culture where there was very little concentrations of nutrients, so the cell would
starve and stop dividing. The second step was to take an ...
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