Recently, Chinese scientists successfully cloned three "super cows," which will be capable of giving 50% more milk after being fully grown than the average cow. The average cow produces around 10,000 litres of milk per year, but these cloned "super cows" will be able to produce 18,000 litres of milk per year. According to an expert who was involved in the experiment, the milk produced by the cloned cows will be no different than that of the regular cows. These cloned calves will be able to produce milk for the market once they reach the age of two years. For this experiment, the technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer was used. This technique was the same as that used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first ever mammal created via cloning. Sampled tissues of somatic cells from cows across China were used to create the embryos, which were later placed inside surrogate cows. The sampled somatic cells were taken from the ears of highly productive Dutch Holstein Friesian cat

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