cloning

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.]]

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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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Research

457,419 papers

Ethics and cloning.ReviewBritish medical bulletin · 2018Häyry MDOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldy031
Cloning of breeding buffalo bulls in India: Initiatives & challenges.ReviewThe Indian journal of medical research · 2018Selokar NLDOI: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_2103_17
A journey through horse cloning.ReviewReproduction, fertility, and development · 2017Gambini A, Maserati MDOI: 10.1071/RD17374
Human cloning 2001.ReviewHuman fertility (Cambridge, England) · 2002Healy DL, Weston G, Pera MF et al.DOI: 10.1080/1464727022000198972
Therapeutic cloning: needs and prospects.ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology · 1999Kind A, Colman ADOI: 10.1006/scdb.1999.0277
Animal cloning: problems and prospects.ReviewRevue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) · 2005Wells DN
Cloning the laboratory mouse.ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology · 1999Wakayama T, Yanagimachi RDOI: 10.1006/scdb.1998.0267
Cloning by SCNT: Integrating Technical and Biology-Driven Advances.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Moura MTDOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3064-8_1

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Article

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Contents

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.