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  Researchers first reported transferring a Tadpole into an ovum to make similar Tadpoles.
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  Scientist Craig Venter, sequenced the genome of the Haemophilus influenzae bacterium.
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  Cloning made stop-the-presses headlines when embryologist Ian Wilmut had announced that he had cloned a sheep
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  In 2003, Craig Venter and his team become one of two to sequence the human genome.