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Reproductive Cloning
Reproductive Cloning of Dolly, the Sheep
Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned. To create Dolly, the nucleus was removed from a donor egg cell. The nucleus from a second sheep was then introduced into the cell, which was allowed to divide to the blastocyst stage before being implanted in a surrogate mother.
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"OpenStax College, Biotechnology. October 16, 2013."
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