Debora Atwater
Mrs. Yost
English 7
February 20, 2004
Rough Draft Cloning Essay
In 1997, scientists in Scotland created Dolly, clone sheep. Many groups of people responded to this by asking if this would lead to human cloning. People have many views and questions on the prospect of cloning humans and other mammals.
Some people ask who, in fact, is Dolly. Dolly was the cloned from an adult dorsett ewe in 1997 by Scot Ian Wilmut and his team. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult mammal-something that was thought to be impossible. Out of 277 nuclei, only 30 turned into embryos one only one developed into the birth of Dolly. Wilmut was the first scientist to make adult cells act like embryonic cells. Before Dolly, scientist didn't think gene transplant could be preformed on any other cells than embryonic cells. The process used for Dolly could work theoretically on humans (Winters 17 E18).
There was a verity of reactions to Dolly and the prospect of human......
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