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On February 22, 1997, the world was informed of the birth of Dolly the sheep. Who was cloned from an udder cell of an adult sheep named Eve in Scotland. Many people panicked at the idea, if a mammal had been cloned, they assume that a human clone would not be too far away. (Yout,. et all pg9) Cloning is not a relatively new idea, as far back as 1938 German Scientist Spemann proposes a "fantastical experiment" to transfer one cell's nucleus into an egg without a nucleus, the method that would eventually be used in the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. But at that time no one was able to successfully conduct the experiment. (Yout, Lisa.,et all pg 13) It was not till 11 years after the death of Spemann, that cloning – by adding an isolated nucleus to an egg whose nucleus ha