Specifically, he is a White-tailed Deer, or Odocoileus virginianus, and was cloned from a dead buck by the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine.
At last report, Dewey was living a peaceful, uneventful life in College Station, TX.
A DNA analysis proved that he was genetically identical to the donor,[1] a buck that scored a 232 on the Boone and Crockett scale.
He was cloned from tissue harvested from the skin cells of the hunted deer.
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