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What was the name of the first cloned mammal?

  • Dolly the sheep
  • Molly the cow
  • Polly the goat

The answer is Dolly the sheep. Dolly, cloned in 1996.

Dolly (sheep)

Dolly 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. Contrary to popular belief, she was not the first animal to be cloned.

Wikipedia · Dolly (sheep)