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1. Most famous cloned animal is probably the sheep Dolly. She was born in Scotland in 1996.

2. She is the first cloned mammal made from adult sheep’s differentiated cell. The sheep’s original cell was a old sheep. This fact was unbelievable then.

3. Dolly was world news. There were various opinions. Some people requested scientists to clone dead people.

4. She was suspected that she can’t have her child. But she has borne 4 babies.

5. Dolly died in 2003. She was 6 years old. She was killed painlessly because she was ill. She was made and killed by man.

by Yoshiko Baba

Source

http://www.time.com/time/2007/cloning/index.html

http://www.biotech-house.jp/glossary/glos_108.html