Question

Which among the following are correct statements about cloning?

• A. Dolly is a clone of Finn Dorsett sheep.
• B. Cow was the first mammal to be cloned.
• C. Cloning is a process by which the exact copy of an organism is produced.
• D. Cell was collected from the mammary gland of a male Finn Dorsett sheep.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (C)

The correct options are
A Dolly is a clone of Finn Dorsett sheep.
C Cloning is a process by which the exact copy of an organism is produced.

• Cloning is the process of production of exact copy of a cell, any other living part or of a complete organism.
• The process of cloning was perfomed for the first time by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues. They successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly. Dolly was born on 5th July 1996 and was the first mammal to be cloned.
• During the process of cloning Dolly, a cell was collected from the mammary gland of a female Finn Dorsett sheep.