Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton.

1996

She was cloned from a mammary gland cell, and Ian Wilmut joked that they couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Parton's.

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• Dolly the sheep cloned1996 · Roslin, Scotland. On 5 July 1996 Dolly the sheep was born at the Roslin Institute, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Her announcement in 1997 sparked worldwide debate about human cloning.

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