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Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum 2 (context by extension English) The production of an exact copy of an object vb. (present participle of clone English)
WordNet
n. a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
Wikipedia
In biology, cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software.
The term clone, invented by J. B. S. Haldane, is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών klōn, "twig", referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig. In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century; the final e came into use to indicate the vowel is a "long o" instead of a "short o". Since the term entered the popular lexicon in a more general context, the spelling clone has been used exclusively.
In botany, the term lusus was traditionally used.
In computer science, cloning refers to the making of an exact copy of an object, frequently under the paradigm of instance-based programming, or object-oriented programming (OOP).
Cloning is the process of making an identical copy of something.
Cloning may also refer to:
- Cloning (programming), the copying of a programming object
- Disk cloning, the copying of the contents of a computer hard disk to a storage medium or file
- Phone cloning, the transfer of identity between one mobile telephone and another
- Reduplication, aka "cloning", in linguistics refers to a process by which the root or stem of a word is repeated
- Molecular cloning, the process of identifying and isolating a specific gene
- "The Cloning", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Usage examples of "cloning".
The cloning department had worked overtime growing new batches of Emir embryos for the fetal neurons and glia they could supply and prepared appropriate annealing solutions of disaggregated cells with which the surgeons would bathe the central nervous system splices.
When it came time to paint the spinal cord graft with a solution of myelinating cells, ig-Gabal, the Palace cloning chief, became rattled, and tried to hand the circulating nurse a syringe of unenriched oligodendrocytes.
Not a way of life, machine-assisted cloning is the biosocial counterpart of a hobby.
The idea of cloning has been explored widely in fiction, but always in terms of medical technology involving complex machinery, a dilettante obsession for the very rich.
But then, only female humans have wombs, so a contemplation of cloning became a novel about drastically altered relations between the sexes.
I went to bat for you, of course, but it was your own competence as a cloning technician that earned you the privilege.
It could only have been done with the most advanced cloning techniques.
As it was, Yezid had to wait another few minutes for the rest of the latecomers to straggle in before herding the cloning section to the main hall, where the other sections were also assembling.
The focus of the investigation now was not cloning, but the electronics and prosthetics expertise that had provided the disguised weapons.
Abdul will act as liaison between the Palace cloning staff and the laboratory of the Royal Stables.
The two cloning technicians were pale and drawn, blinking as if unaccustomed to light.
And who can tell us better than someone involved with the Palace cloning program?
Nevertheless, when the cloning party had filed into the OR, it was Mustafa and his cluttering fellows who had been relegated to the sidelines along with the circulating nurses and standby technicians, while Hamid-Jones had been assigned to stand with ig-Gabal in the place of honor at the surgical interface, though there was nothing, really, for him to do.
Hamid-Jones had received his favor, and that the Royal Stables were to be considered to be on a par with the well-entrenched bureaucrats of the Palace cloning establishment.
It would be months if everbefore the monstrous inventory that must be going on at this moment would get around to cataloguing a single horse in the Royal Stables annex, or before anyone uncovered the data on the cloning project.