She was born in 1996 after scientists figured out how to remove the DNA from the egg cell of a Scottish Blackface sheep and basically replace it with the DNA of a mammary cell from a Finn Dorset ...

Dr Harry Griffin said: "Sheep can live to 11 or 12 years of age ... a spokesman for the Institute said. Dolly, a Finn Dorset named after the country and western singer Dolly Parton, was cloned ...

Although she's a Finn Dorset sheep, Dolly triggers vigorous debate about the ethics of human cloning. Scientists will go on to clone cattle, goats and mice among other species, while Dolly ...