Biographical Sketch
Ian Wilmut was the scientist who cloned Dolly. He cloned Dolly, the sheep, in Febuary of 1997. Ian Wilmut had interest in cloning when his team and himself succeeded in producing a pair of lambs from embryonic cells. His work helped and hindered mankind. It helped mankind because this technology was able to save and produce lives, and lives are important. It is also able to save endangered species, by cloning it with one of its close family members. It hindered mankind because many people may go overboard with this technology, and may use it for inappropriate uses, such as cloning themselves over and over again to create an army of themselves. Also, cloning will make the cloned person have a shorter lifespan, and they would also loose their individuality. In order to be a very good scientist, you need to have some sort of education. When he was young, he had an interest in farming, and that led him to study agriculture in the University of Nottingham. He also had jobs while he was still in university, and he put his interest on embryology. Afterwards, he went to the University of Cambridge and received a doctorate degree. He concentrated on animal genetic engineering while he was at the University of Cambridge. Ian Wilmut had to go through a lot of education, and a good place to have his education. A thing that he accomplished is receiving a
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doctorate degree. But most of all, Ian Wilmut was remembered for cloning Dolly, the first clone of a mammal. His accomplishment of cloning Dolly had allowed many oppertunities for therapeutic cloning, the replication of animal embryos for the purpopse of researching. To me, I think Ian Wilmut is a very good scientist because he had opened many doors to the hidden secrets in science. When he did so, people are able to understand more about the world they are living in. He was that good of a scientist that Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for what he had done in science.