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  • How to Clone a Sheep

    Hazel Richardson

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, July 31, 1999)
    Would you like to make a trip to the Moon, or build your own nuclear reactor? Have you ever wanted to travel through time? Well, here's your chance! Whether you're interested in cloning budgies or building black holes, the "How to" guides will tell you everything you need to know. Thesehands-on guides give you step-by step instructions on how to build a Moon rocket, clone a sheep, split the atom or make a time machine. And on the way to becoming a time traveller or nuclear genius, you can learn about the brilliant scientists who first made these incredible discoveries - and aboutthe slightly less brilliant scientists who didn't.How to Clone a Sheep is a working guide to becoming a genetic genius. In July 1995, a lamb was born in a shed in Scotland. Not very earth-shattering? But this was a very special lamb. She was called Dolly, and she was an exact copy, or clone, of another sheep. For the first time in history,scientists had successfully cloned an animal! Learn the full story of Dolly and how she was born in How to Clone a Sheep. You can also find out how to build a model cell, copy some DNA, and how to clone plants and animals at home!