the process of making an identical copy of an organism or cell
One danger of cloning is that many animals have been found to develop genetic defectsafter birth, including premature ageing.
cloning in American English
(ˈkloʊnɪŋ)
US
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 body cell from the organism
Word origin
see clone
Examples of 'cloning' in a sentence
cloning
Many times he suffered frostbite of fingers and face, and twice he lost toes, which had to be regenerated in secret at the cloning shop.
Zindell, David THE BROKEN GOD (2002)
All related terms of 'cloning'
clone
If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
gene clone
a group of organisms or cells of the same genetic constitution that are descended from a common ancestor by asexual reproduction , as by cuttings , grafting, etc, in plants
human cloning
the act of producing a human as a clone
cloning vector
a variable quantity, such as force, that has magnitude and direction and can be resolved into components that are odd functions of the coordinates . It is represented in print by a bold italic symbol: F or ̄F
therapeutic cloning
the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
polar vector
a variable quantity, such as force, that has magnitude and direction and can be resolved into components that are odd functions of the coordinates . It is represented in print by a bold italic symbol: F or ̄F
vector
A vector is a variable quantity, such as force, that has size and direction.