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Also Known As Sir Ian Wilmut
Born July 7, 1944 • England
Died September 10, 2023 (aged 79)
Subjects Of Study Frostie • clone • genetic engineering • nuclear transfer • pharming • cryopreservation

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This diagram illustrates the cloning process of Dolly the sheep in 1996, showing how a nucleus from an adult Finn Dorset ewe was fused with an enucleated egg cell from a Scottish Blackface ewe, then implanted into a surrogate to produce Dolly.
Dolly
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
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C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
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Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
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Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
John Gurdon
John Gurdon
British biologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
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Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
St. George Jackson Mivart
St. George Jackson Mivart
British biologist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
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Joseph Needham
British biochemist
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Reginald Punnett
British geneticist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist

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