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Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original. A clone in the biological sense, therefore, is a single cell (like bacteria, lymphocytes etc.) or multi-cellular organism that has been directly copied from and is therefore genetically identical to another living organism. Sometimes this term can refer to "natural" clones made either when an organism reproduces asexually or when two genetically identical individuals are produced by chance (as with identical twins), but in ...
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- Cloning (Medline Plus)
- Cloning (Dept. of Energy)
- Cloning/Embryonic Stem Cells (National Human Genome Research Institute)
- Cloning: Revolution or Evolution in Animal Production? (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
- Creating a Cloned Sheep Named Dolly (National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Education)
- Food and Drug Administration
- Glossary of Cloning Terms (National Academy of Sciences)
- Human Cloning (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Human Cloning and Genetic Modification--The Basic Science You Need to Know (Association of Reproductive Health Professionals)
- Human Cloning May Be Impossible, New Study Shows (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
- Human Genome Project Information (Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project)
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Use of Cloning Technology to Clone a Human Being (Food and Drug Administration)
- Why We Should Not Clone Humans (American Medical Association)
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