Musician, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman – Dolly Parton had done it all.
But perhaps her most unusual accolade was having the world’s first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, named after her.
This might seem like an unusual choice from the team at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
However, there was an important reason for choosing the name Dolly – and it all came down to the type of cell the sheep was cloned from.
Dolly was grown using a nucleus from a single mammary cell, and with Dolly Parton known for her generous bust, the name seemed like an obvious choice.
