Cloning Definition

klōniŋ
noun
The technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a tissue cell from the organism.
Webster's New World
Any of various techniques for producing genetically identical DNA fragments, stem cells, etc.
Webster's New World

(by extension) The production of an exact copy of an object.

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verb
The definition of cloning is the technique of making an identical copy of something.
When a copy is made of someone's DNA and genetic makeup, this is an example of cloning.
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Present participle of clone.

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Other Word Forms of Cloning

Noun

Singular:
cloning
Plural:
clonings

Cloning Sentence Examples

  • This will be a scientific announcement for the ages, more than DNA, cloning, everything!

  • Dialysis came a few years later, then chemotherapy, then the defibrillator, then the polio vaccine; then came cloning, then a kidney transplant.

  • Does cloning necessarily engender such confusion?

  • But the cloning of the ATM gene responsible for A-T as of 2004 allows physicians or cancer genetics professionals to conduct genetic testing, analyzing patients' DNA to look for A-T mutations in the ATM gene.

  • A report of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council Report (FAWC) is rightly cautious over the potential uses of cloning in animals.

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