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somatic cell nuclear transfer: Quick Facts

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Also Known As SCNT

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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.
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Lanza, Robert P.
Robert P. Lanza
American scientist