CLONE TECHNOLOGY

The cloning of Dolly involved several steps. First, cells had previously been taken
from Dolly’s mother were starved for five days, which caused them to stop dividing.
This interruption of the cell’s division cycle made it easier for them to reprogram
themselves to start growing a new organism.

After five days, the nuclei of these cells were removed and transferred into an
unfertilized sheep egg, from which the natural nucleus had previously been
removed.

In the next step, the egg was grown in the laboratory for a period of time.

Then, the egg was implanted into a different sheep, where it grew normally.

When the sheep finally gave birth, the lamb was an exact genetic copy, or clone, of
the sheep that had provided the transferred nucleus, not of the step that had
provided the egg.