Biology:Finn Dorset
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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 Finn Dorsets and related cross-breeds have been bred for the properties of the Finnsheep's prolificacy and the Dorset's meat conformation.[3]
Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, was a Finn Dorset.[4]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2002). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types, and Varieties (fifth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 085199430X.
- ↑ Iman, N.; Slyter, A. (1995-01-01). "Lifetime Lamb and Wool Production of Targhee or Finn-Dorset-Targhee Ewes Managed as a Farm or Range Flock". South Dakota Sheep Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1995. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_sheepday_1995/4.
- ↑ "The Life of Dolly". The Roslin Institute. http://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
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