How many parents did Dolly the cloned sheep actually have?

Image by Bigod via FlickrEverybody remember Dolly, the first real-life clone that ever got significant mainstream press coverage? Well, as is often the case, the science fact of Dolly is rather more bizarre than your typical clone-oriented science fiction. Turns out Dolly had a rather unorthodox number of parents, depending on how you define the term. How many? I'll tell you two ways:

• TEXT: Geek Trivia: How many parents did Dolly the cloned sheep actually have? 
• AUDIO: TechTalk Trivia: How many mommies and daddies did Dolly, the famous cloned sheep have? 

The latter podcast also has some nice ancillary material about the fate of the human brain from Matt Richtel and a tidbit about Intel's Museum of Me.

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