Livestock Cloning
            
             Cloning of livestock is a new technology in today's world that many people do not know what it is really about. Many feel cloning is just replacing the old passed away animal with a new one that has the same genetics. Most people are on the right track, but there are lots of little lose ends that many people do not have tied up in their mind.
             Cloning is the process of making multiple copies of a DNA sequence to form an identical replicate of what is being cloned (Brown, 342). Cloning is a very complex and difficult concept to grasp. It has taken many years and many experimental trials to find out how to clone animals. Dr. Ian Wilmot was first to conquer this elite task of cloning.
             Dr. Ian Wilmot of Roslin Institute revealed to the world that he had successfully cloned the first adult sheep in 1997 (Research Defence Society). With this invention, the world made a collective gasp at the realization that cloning was no longer a dream, but a reach closer to a scientific break through. Dolly, the cloned sheep, was not the first animal to be "cloned" because many of mice, frogs, and cattle had been "cloned" before, but the reason Dolly was so special was she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, rather than from an embryo (Research Defence Society). An embryo transfer is the process in which an egg that has been fertilized in vitro is transferred into a recipient's uterus (Drlica, 6). Thus Dolly was formed from actual cell tissue of an animal instead of an actual embryo that was already fertilized.
             Through many trials, Dolly finally was born after 277 attempts (Research Defence Society). To produce Dolly, the scientists used the nucleus of an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep (Research Defence Society). Finn Sheep are supposed to have the greatest reproductive ability and Dorset Sheep are supposed to have high milking percentage, so they used ...