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The Economic Times
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Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton, but do you know the reason? Here’s how the world’s first adult-cell clone got its name from the country music legend

When Dolly the sheep was born in 1996, she became a scientific sensation. She was the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell, challenging what scientists believed was possible and opening the door to new research in genetics and biology.

But there is another fascinating part of Dolly’s story: her name.

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