<span>1. The first cloning of an animal was done in the 1880s by German biologist Hans Driesch who cloned a sea urchin from an embryo cell.2. In 1952, Robert Briggs and Thomas King cloned northern leopard frogs…3. …but it was not until 1963 that biologist JBS Haldane coined the term “clone”.4. The reproductive cloning of humans is banned under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.5. Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, was born on July 5, 1996. The cell was taken from a mammary gland...6. She was named ‘Dolly’ as, in the words of the project leader: “We couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.”</span>
The reproductive cloning of humans is banned under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
<span>7. The first dog to be cloned was born in South Korea on April 24, 2005, and was named Snuppy.8. Snuppy was named as Time Magazine's most amazing invention of 2005.9. The team that produced Snuppy went on to create the world's first cloned sniffer dogs in 2007.</span>
1. There are three different types of cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. 2. The term "cloning" was first coined in a speech in 1963 by Englishman John Haldane. 3. One of the most recent cloned animal was a ferret in 2006. 4. The first cloned animal was a sea urchin in 1885. 5. The FDA has approved the sale of animal products from cloned animals. 6. 95% of animal cloning has failed. 7. Animals are the only beings being cloned as of now. 8. Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a cell. 9. The highly fatal Large Offspring Syndrome is said to occur within over 50% of all cloned cattle, but in only 6 % of normally-bred livestock. 10. CLONAID was founded back in 1997 and claims to be the first human cloning company in the entire world
