Distributor:Great White Dog Picture Co. (http://www.greatwhitedog.com)Age Level:All ages As a group of children prepare for a fair, viewers learn about sheep and wool. Lush scenery and enchanting…
country singer, actress, songwriterBorn: 1/19/1946Birthplace: Sevierville, Tennessee Songs like “Here You Come Again” and “Two Doors Down” have made Parton one of the most famous country singers…
(Encyclopedia) Parton, Dolly, 1946–, country singer, songwriter, and actress, b. Sevier County, Tenn. Among the most popular country singers of the 1970s and 80s, Parton is known for her Nashville-…
(Encyclopedia) sheep, common name for many species of wild and domesticated ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis of the Bovidae, or cattle, family. The male is called a ram (if castrated it is a wether…
(Encyclopedia) Campbell, Keith, 1954–2012, British cell biologist, b. Birmingham, England, Ph.D. Univ. of Sussex, 1986. In 1991 he joined the Edinburgh Research Station of Animal Physiology and…
(Encyclopedia) Wilmut, Sir Ian, 1944– British embryologist, b. Warwickshire, England, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1971. While doing postdoctoral research at Cambridge, he was part of the team that produced…
The cloning craze began in 1996, when scientists in Scotland astonished the world by announcing that they had successfully cloned an adult sheep. They called her Dolly. A clone is a copy of…
(Encyclopedia) Southdown sheep, mutton breed of sheep originated on the South Downs of Sussex, England, and now raised throughout the world. It is a small sheep, the most thickset of all breeds, and…
(Encyclopedia) Rambouillet sheepRambouillet sheeprămˈb&oobreve;lāˌ [key], fine-wool breed developed in France from the Spanish Merino sheep. It has become very popular in the United States and is…
