Word: ewe
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Seth Jenkins grabs a black-faced Suffolk sheep around the neck and with Billie Fowler nudging from behind, they lead the nearly 200-lb animal onto a plywood board. The friends maneuver the ewe onto her rear haunches, exposing her belly, and with Jenkins wedging the furry animal between his knees, Fowler hands him a pair of electric shears...
...noon on the second day, a nearly 6-foot-tall burlap sack was bulging with freshly cut fleece and the students were clearly ready for a break. Melendrez brought in a 250-pound ewe and promptly removed the wool in a matter of minutes, reviewing the process as he went...
...Kidjo's ideas have never been better expressed than on her latest album, Djin Djin, released last month. The 15 tracks, which address fundamental themes like birth, love, alienation and hope, are sung in a variety of languages - from West European (English and French) to West African (Ewe and Fon). Styles range from Beninese to Brazilian to Bowie - a touch added courtesy of legendary producer Tony Visconti. And the album features a dazzlingly diverse set of collaborators - among them Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Peter Gabriel, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, German singer Joy Denalane and Italian Carmen Consoli...
...process by which that is achieved is called nuclear transfer. The first step is to remove the nucleus from an egg and replace it with the nucleus of an adult cell (in Dolly's case, a cell from a ewe's udder). The two components are electrically fused and chemically activated to trick the hybrid cell into dividing like an embryo. Not surprisingly, the process doesn't always go right. "I call it a lottery," says Wilmut. "Even if you use the same method as consistently as you can, you may get some clones with severe abnormalities and some that...
...other was shortened telomeres in her cells. Telomeres are bits of DNA that sit at the ends of chromosomes and serve as a biological clock chronicling a cell's age. In general, the shorter the telomeres, the older the cell. Dolly, a clone of a 6-year-old ewe, had cells whose telomeres were closer in length to those of her biological mother than to those of a baby lamb. We will never know, though, whether her shortened telomeres would have shortened her life. In 2003 Wilmut and his team decided to put Dolly to sleep after she developed lung...