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Title: Cloning
Words: 838
Cloning as defined in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as an individual grown from a single somatic cell of its parent and genetically identical to it. The first breakthrough in cloning was Dolly the sheep.
Dolly's entrance to this world marked a remarkable turning point in biological science. Her quiet birth had no photographers present or any sort of celebration on July 5th, 1996. Even her creator Ian Wilmut was not present. The first cloned sheep was a breakthrough to scientists, for many saw the benefits lying ahead for humankind. The process Dolly was created from nuclear transfer, where "the nucleus of a mature but unfertilized egg is removed and replaced with a nucleus obtained from a specialized cell of an adult organism" (Kass & Wilson, 1998, p.13).
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