Question

Which of the facts about Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell is NOT correct?

1. Dolly was born in the year 1998.
2. Dolly died in the year 2003.
3. Dolly was born at Scotland.
4. Dolly died due to lung disease.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Dolly was born in the year 1998.

Dolly was born in the year 1998 is NOT correct.

• Dolly was cloned from a cell taken from the mammary gland of a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish Blackface sheep.
  • She was born to her Scottish Blackface surrogate mother on 5th July 1996.
  • Dolly’s white face was one of the first signs that she was a clone because if she was genetically related to her surrogate mother, she would have had a black face.
  • Dolly died due to lung disease in the year 2003.
  • Dolly was not the first-ever cloned mammal, that honour belongs to another sheep which was cloned from an embryo cell and born in 1984 in Cambridge, UK.