Question

The first successfully cloned animal is

• A. Frog
• B. Bird
• C. Sheep
• D. Fish

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Sheep

a) Dolly is the first sheep which was developed by the technique of cloning.

b) A donor cell is obtained from the sheep which has to be cloned.

c) An egg from a matured female sheep was taken and its nucleus was removed and was allowed to fuse with the nucleus of the donor cell.

d) This egg cell was cultured and transferred to the surrogate mother.

e) The sheep Dolly was identical in the characters with the mother who donated the diploid nucleus from the body cell. The genes from the mother cells were transferred to Dolly.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.