Hardik Purohit

Division – 18
Roll No - 118048

In 1996, scientists cloned a female domestic sheep using adult somatic cells from the mammary glands through the process
of nuclear transfer. The resulting sheep, Dolly, matured and reproduced naturally. Dolly was a significant biological
breakthrough, because she demonstrated not only that a full, separate embryo with properly expressed cells of all types
could be cloned from a cell taken from a specific part of the body, but also that the cell could come from a fully developed
adult.

Since Dolly, other animals have been cloned, including pigs, deer, horses, and bulls. Scientists have even been able to
attempt cloning recently extinct animals in an attempt to save endangered and newly extinct species by resurrecting them
from frozen tissue. Most notably, researchers in Spain cloned a Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, which was
officially declared extinct in 2000. Dolly and cloning in general have been a controversial branch of science since the 1990s
and its ethics are debated by some to this day.