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In 1885 what sea animal was the first to be cloned long before the sheep?

Question #150696. Asked by BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Feb 23 2024.
Originally posted Feb 23 2024 9:18 PM.

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A sea urchin.

In 1885 Hans Driesch (a German biologist and philosopher) produced identical twins from a sea urchin embryo. Driesch used the embryo splitting (twinning) process.
He has also been credited with performing the first artificial 'cloning' of an animal in the 1880s, although this claim is dependent on how one defines cloning.
Driesch studied sea urchin embryos, and found that when he separated the two cells of the embryo after the first cell-division, each developed into a complete sea urchin.
link https://wiki2.org/en/Hans_Driesch
Response last updated by psnz on Feb 23 2024.
Feb 23 2024, 9:19 PM
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