3864 x 5426 px | 32,7 x 45,9 cm | 12,9 x 18,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
10. Februar 2010
Ort:
The Scottish National Museum of Scotland Chambers St Edinburgh Scotland.
Weitere Informationen:
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep remarkable in being the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six. She has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by sources including BBC News and Scientific American. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate a whole individual. As Dolly was cloned from part of a mammary gland, she was named after the famously curvaceous country western singer Dolly Parton. Dolly died from an incurable lung disease that affects sheep known as SPA. Dolly was given to National Museums Scotland and her remains were conserved by our taxidermists as an exhibit. She is now on display in the Connect Gallery, National Museum of Scotland. Dolly has been enormously popular, with visitors coming from all over the world to see her. She has even travelled to Hungary to open a new science museum in Budapest!
