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Finn Dorset

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Dolly in the Royal Museum of Scotland

The Finn-Dorset or Finn Dorset is a British and Irish sheep, a cross-breed of the Finnsheep with the Dorset Horn.[1]: 801 [2]: 291 

Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, was a Finn Dorset.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
  2. ^ Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2002). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types, and Varieties (fifth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 085199430X.
  3. ^ "The Life of Dolly". The Roslin Institute. Retrieved 2018-04-02.