Cloning

In Case You Were Sleeping On June 22nd 1999, the world was changed in such a radical way that it will never be the same. A group of Scottish scientists from the Roslin Institute did the impossible and created the world's first genetic clone, a sheep named Dolly. She was an exact replica of her mother's nucleic DNA, but the most incredible part was that Dolly's DNA came from her mother's udder, not a haploid sex …

…page] 6 May 2000; <URL:http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/foreveryoung.html>. [accessed 10 June 2000] Wilmut, Ian. Potential benefits of cloning and Nuclear Transfer. [web page] 3 March 1998; Roslin Institute. <URL:http://www2.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/library/research/cloning/nt-benefits2.html.> [accessed 11 June 2000]Figure 1 - The creation of Dolly the sheep. Note that egg and udder cell were removed months before the experiment. Picture courtesy of New Scientist <http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990904/images/newsstory7.jpg>