What Animals Have So Far Been Cloned?

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Mention cloning to anyone and they probably think of a little sheep called dolly and a mad proffesor in a white apron. But the world of cloning has been going on a lot longer than most people realize and the crazy scientists have been really really busy. So here, after a brief introduction of cloning, is a list of some of the fake animals we know about that. The cloning of animals you're thinking about is normally a specific form of cloning called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).A somatic cell is any cell in the body except sperm cells or the egg cell. Each somatic cell has two sets of chromosomes.The idea is king of simple. Take a somatic from an adult animal. Remove its nucleus-the brain of the cell containing the DNA which makes the animal the what it is, then take an empty nucleus-less egg cell and insert the DNA inside it.Then do a little bit of laboratory business and insert the new egg into a surrogate mother animal. After gestation a new animal is born exactly the same as the animal which donated its DNA.Weird, YES Incredibly yes.