Dolly was born on 5th July 1996 and had three mothers ( one provided the egg, another the DNA and the third carried the cloned embryo to term).
She was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer by Iam Wilmut, Keith Campbell at the Roslin institute in Edingburgh. Dolly wasn't the first animal to clone but she gained the attention in the media because she was the first to be cloned from an adult cell.
The sheep lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute and produced six lambs until she died on the 14th February 2003 because she had a lung cancer which is very common of sheeps. After Dolly died many other animals were cloned (pigs, horses, bulls..) but no one was so famous like her, so she has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by the media.
In my opinion, cloning an animal isn't that bad, and I don't understand why so many people think that it is something that goes against god and religion. It's just a new technique of creating life, and Dolly had the same life like other sheeps and she didn't have any problems, she was just a normal happy sheep.
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