Cloning

Cloning

The term is used by scientists to refer to a range of applications in which copies of a cell or organism are produced from a single ancestor. Clones are therefore genetically identical to each other. Cloning can be used to refer to:

• Production of a large number of copies DNA or genes
• Production of a large number of genetically identical cells
• Production of genetically identical individuals by asexual reproduction or artificially

Micropropagation is also a means of cloning. The first animal to be cloned from adult cells was Dolly the sheep.

• Fermentation 
• Mushroom production
• Traditional selection
• Traditional breeding
• Plant tissue culture

• Mutation breeding
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• Cloning
• Molecular Marker assisted selection
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