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What was the first cloned animal?

Question #65669. Asked by apple03.
Last updated Sep 08 2016.

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First Male Clone - Article from Nature News Service about the first successfully cloned male animal, a mouse (1999).

May 13 2006, 11:55 AM
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What animals have been cloned?

Scientists have been cloning animals for many years. In 1952, the first animal, a tadpole, was cloned. Before the creation of Dolly (1997), the first mammal cloned from the cell of an adult animal, clones were created from embryonic cells. Since Dolly, researchers have cloned a number of large and small animals including sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, and a gaur. All these clones were created using nuclear transfer technology.

May 13 2006, 12:54 PM
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While Dolly is often the answer given to this question, there were actually earlier (less exciting) clonings.

In 1952 a tadpole was said to have been cloned, but there is disagreement about whether it was a true clone or not.

Chinese embryologist Tong Dizhou successfully inserted the DNA from a male Asian carp into the egg of a female Asian carp to create the first fish clone in 1963.

In 1973 Tong inserted Asian carp DNA into a European crucian carp to create the first interspecies clone.



link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_have_been_cloned


* Tadpole: (1952) Many scientists questioned whether cloning had actually occurred and unpublished experiments by other labs were not able to reproduce the reported results.

* Carp: (1963) In China, embryologist Tong Dizhou cloned a fish. He published the findings in an obscure Chinese science journal which was never translated into English.

* Sheep: (1996) From early embryonic cells by Steen Willadsen. Megan and Morag cloned from differentiated embryonic cells in June 1995 and Dolly the sheep in 1997.

* Rhesus Monkey: Tetra (female, January 2000) from embryo splitting

* Cattle: Alpha and Beta (males, 2001) and (2005) Brazil.

* Cat: CopyCat "CC" (female, late 2001), Little Nicky, 2004, was the first cat cloned for commercial reasons.

* Mule: Idaho Gem, a john mule born 2003-05-04, was the first horse-family clone.

* Horse: Prometea, a Haflinger female born 2003-05-28, was the first horse clone.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning



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Response last updated by Terry on Sep 08 2016.
Sep 18 2007, 7:58 AM
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Named after Dolly Parton because the cell came from mammary tissue. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

Response last updated by Terry on Sep 08 2016.
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