defined:

The process of making copies of a specific piece of DNA, usually a gene. When geneticists speak of cloning, they do not mean the process of making genetically identical copies of an entire organism.

explained:

Listen to a detailed explanation.

Dr. Leslie Biesecker, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, defines cloning.

related
terms:

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), gene

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