• Question: When was the first sheep cloned and how did they do it? Can you manage it with something bigger?

    Asked by onleethebrave to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Dolly the sheep I believe in 1996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

      I’m not great on cell biology, so I’m not sure of all the details as to how its done but I think you can technically clone bigger animals. You’d need to think about why you’d need to – and there are all sorts of ethical reasons for/against doing this.

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I think you can, but I don’t know much about cloning.

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Not my area of specialism unfortunately.

      Although personally I’m not overly sure that we should be interfering with nature to the extend of cloning.

      Mark

    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I think we should leave the sheep alone 🙂

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Great answers. Dolly the sheep is now in a museum in Edinburgh. If you ever visit, you can go see her and learn more about the history of cloning.

      http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_collections/highlights/dolly_the_sheep.aspx

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