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Agriculture · Q16

Animal Husbandry

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 16

Q16

First clone Dolly was made in

A.
Sheep
Answer
B.
Goat
C.
Cow
D.
Buffalo

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
First clone Dolly was made in Sheep.
Dolly (5th July 1996 - 14th February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell.
She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland. Her cloning proved that a cloned organism could be produced from a mature cell from a specific body part.