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Facts

Also Known As reproductive cloning

Did You Know?

  • The sea urchin was the first organism cloned.
  • Fully cloning a human is banned under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
  • Every navel orange is a clone of a genetically mutated Brazilian orange.

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Dolly the sheep
Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
CC, the first cloned cat
Dolly the sheep and her cloning
Will cloning bring the woolly mammoth back to life?
How Dolly the sheep was cloned
Can cloning save endangered species?
Learn how somatic cell nuclear transfer is used for reproductive and therapeutic cloning
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Key People

Gordon L. Woods
American equine reproduction specialist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
John Gurdon
John Gurdon
British biologist
Lanza, Robert P.
Robert P. Lanza
American scientist

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Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier
8 Famous Animals
cloning. First cloned cat. First cloned companion animal. CC (copy cat) female domestic shorthair cat (b. Dec. 22, 2001) photo Jan. 18, 2002. Cloned at Texas A&M Univ. College of Vet. Med. & Biomedical Sciences. Reproductive cloning genetics DNA cc cat
CC, The First Cloned Cat