Brief History of Cloning

There have been many important events in cloning history and they are still very progressive today. The idea of cloning something in a lab was first thought of in 1885 by August Weismann. He theorized that the information of a cell would diminish after it went through differentiation. In 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King cloned the first animals. They cloned northern leopard frogs. And in 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson figured out the structure of DNA. In 1978 the first baby was born using in vitro fertilization. 1996 the President passed a law stating it was illegal for government to produce any funding for cloning. A really important date for cloning was February 23, 1997 when Dolly the lamb was born by cloning adult cells was born.

This is a picture of the lamb they cloned, Dolly.