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

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?

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

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLO

Words Ending With

GNGING

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Words Starting With C and Ending With G

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