5 Animals That Have Been Cloned

By: EjazUlHaqBhat

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Born in 1996, Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell by researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland

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Dolly's birth was a scientific milestone that changed what scientists thought was possible

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Prometea, the first cloned horse, was created in 2003 by Italian researchers

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The researchers fused the nucleus of a skin cell from the mother horse with an empty egg from another horse

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Snuppy, the first cloned dog, was created in 2005 by scientists in Seoul, South Korea

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Snuppy was cloned from the DNA of an adult Afghan hound, and his name is a combination of "S.N.U." (Seoul National University) and "puppy"

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In 2020, Chinese researchers cloned a rhesus monkey named ReTro using a technique called "trophoblast replacement"

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CC (Copy Cat), the first cloned cat, born in 2001 at Texas A&M University

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CC was genetically identical to the cat that donated her DNA, Rainbow, but had her own unique personality and appearance

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