Sheep
- From early embryonic cells by Steen Willadsen (1986). Megan and Morag cloned from differentiated embryonic cells in June 1995.
- Dolly (1996–2003), first cloned mammal from somatic cells
- Polly and Molly (July 1997), first transgenic cloned mammal
- Royana (2006) cloned in Royan Research institute in Isfahan, Iran.
- Oyalı and Zarife were cloned in November 2007 in Istanbul University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Read more about this topic: List Of Animals That Have Been Cloned
Famous quotes containing the word sheep:
“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here’s three on’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 22:1.
“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:4.