cloning
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.35|Many organisms, including aspen trees, reproduce by cloning, often creating large groups of organisms with the same [[DNA. One example depicted here is quaking aspen.]]
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Cloning is a natural process where organisms create genetically identical copies of themselves, and many species—including aspen trees—reproduce this way to generate large groups of organisms with identical DNA. It matters because cloning is a widespread reproductive strategy in nature that allows certain organisms to efficiently produce offspring without the genetic variation that comes from sexual reproduction.
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- Etymology
- Natural cloning
- Molecular cloning
- Cell cloning{{Anchor|Cellular cloning}}
- Cloning unicellular organisms
- Cloning stem cells
- Organism cloning
- Horticultural
- Parthenogenesis
- Artificial cloning of organisms
- First steps
- Methods
- Dolly the sheep
- Colossal dire wolves
- Species cloned and applications
- Human cloning
- Ethical issues of cloning
- Cloning extinct and endangered species
- Conservation cloning
- De-extinction
- Unsuccessful attempts
- Lifespan
- In popular culture
- Cloning and identity
- Cloning as resurrection
- Cloning for warfare
- Cloning for exploitation
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.35|Many organisms, including aspen trees, reproduce by cloning, often creating large groups of organisms with the same [[DNA. One example depicted here is quaking aspen.]]
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without a mate is known as parthenogenesis. In the field of biotechnology, cloning is the process of creating cloned organisms of cells and of DNA fragments.