Cloning
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Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, by either natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this repr
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 cell-line colonies using cloning rings
Propagating plants from cuttings, such as grape vines, is an ancient form of cloning.
Bananas can reproduce by cloning (modern cultivars lack seeds)
Dolly (sheep)
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Dolly was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear tra
Cloning
…accomplished via somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a cloning method in which a viable embryo is created from a somatic cell and an egg cell. In 1996, Dolly the sheep achieved notoriety for being the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. Another example of artificial cloning is molecular cloning, a technique…
Dolly with her firstborn lamb, Bonnie
The taxidermy mount of Dolly on exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland in 2009