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![[-- cloning --]](Images/Terms/cloning.gif)
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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.
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Listen to a detailed explanation.
Dr. Leslie Biesecker, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, defines cloning. |
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), gene | |
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