Cloning meaning

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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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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.
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Any of various techniques for producing genetically identical DNA fragments, stem cells, etc.
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To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software.
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Present participle of clone.
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(biology) The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum.
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(by extension) The production of an exact copy of an object.
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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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