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clone
clone A group of genetically identical cells or individuals, derived from a common ancestor by asexual mitotic division (see
MITOSIS). If a section of DNA is engulfed into the
chromosome of a bacterium, phage, or plasmid vector and is replicated to form many copies, each copy is referred to as a DNA clone.
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Cloning has had a makeover Advocates switch terms
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; Cloning has had a makeover Advocates switch terms...scientists set out this year to preserve human cloning as a legal tool of medical research, their...trying to rebuild the Nazi movement by cloning Adolf Hitler, and it helped give cloning...
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Cloning Technology: An Ongoing Battle between technologies versus ethical implication.
M2 Presswire; 2/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...February 2003-Research and Markets: Cloning Technology: An Ongoing Battle between...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02122003 Cloning technology presents humanity with the...only its destiny, but also its origin. Cloning allows man to fashion his own essential...
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Cloning raises difficult issues for White House, Congress.
Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology; 6/22/1997; 700+ words
; The recent successful cloning of an adult sheep - raising the possibility that a human...administration began considering action to limit human cloning research and to ban the actual cloning of a human being. Many scientists and ethicists, however...
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CLONING HYSTERIA? WHY WE SHOULD BAN HUMAN CLONING
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 1/31/1998; 700+ words
; ...faced with the imminent prospect of the cloning of human beings. This has raised fundamental...experimentation. Such is the case with the cloning of humans. When a human being is created through cloning, I believe we have crossed the line from...
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The cloning report: left of Bush but still a ban.
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...concluded in a July report that reproductive cloning should not be permitted. With the benefit...research and greater public scrutiny of cloning, President Bush's group proposed an across-the-board ban on reproductive cloning, whether with public or with private...
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Cloning promises to be growing enterprise
Magazine article from: DVM; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...almost every major university finances cloning research, and wh/le packed with legal...Predicting the commercialization of cloning is difficult, but it does seem to be...his colleagues are at the forefront of cloning technology, having successfully cloned...
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Cloning's ethical dilemma
Magazine article from: DVM; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Do the boundaries stop at cloning pets? Some decry animal exploitation...science. Groundbreaking research on cloning dogs and cats, though, has taken...sentimental overtone. The prospect of cloning pets has invaded veterinary practices...
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Cloning issue again before Senate; Outright bans will vie with use of stem cells for research.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON TIMES An effort to ban human cloning got under way in the new 108th Congress...introduction of a House bill that would outlaw cloning embryos for any purpose, including medical research. "Any attempt at human cloning, for whatever purpose, is a gross form...
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Cloning good for nature
Newspaper article from: The Press; 10/27/2005; 700+ words
; Cloning could prove itself a valuable tool in the...first cloned sheep, Dolly, in 1997, cloning has become a victimised area of science...exaggeration has turned public opinion against the cloning of animals. Yet cloning could be the future...
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Cloning of Baby Doubted, Damned.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/30/2002; 700+ words
; ...leader says extraterrestrials developed cloning as a route to eternal life claimed Friday...ethicists consider a reckless application of cloning technology, which has run into safety...it would launch an investigation of the cloning group, called Clonaid. Although Clonaid...
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Cloning
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Cloning Cloning burst upon the scene in February, 1997, with the announcement of the...pigs, and cats were also cloned. For biologists, however, the word cloning refers not to producing new animals but rather to copying DNA, including...
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Cloning: Ethical Issues
Book article from: Genetics
Cloning: Ethical Issues Cloning is the creation of an individual that is a genetic replica of another...but differ in characteristics that are acquired in other ways. Cloning in Context Cloning is a natural phenomenon in species as diverse...
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Clone and Cloning
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Clone and Cloning A clone is a cell that is identical to the cell it was derived...the molecules that make up the cell. There are three types of cloning. One method, gene cloning, utilizes copying fragments of DNA for easier manipulation...
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Cloning Genes
Book article from: Genetics
Cloning Genes Gene cloning, or molecular cloning, has several different meanings to a molecular biologist. A clone is an exact copy, or replica, of something. In the literal sense, cloning a gene means to make many exact copies of a segment...
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Cloning Organisms
Book article from: Genetics
Cloning Organisms There are two distinct types of cloning: molecular and organismal. Molecular cloning is the removal of a stretch of DNA, usually a gene, from an organism, and its insertion into another piece of DNA, such as a plasmid , to...
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