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Title: Cloning
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The word clone denotes an object or organism regarded as identical to another. In biotechnology, it is a generic term for the replication in a laboratory of genes, cells or organisms from a single original entity. As a result, exact genetic copies of the original gene, cell or organism can be produced. Ian Wilmut and colleagues of the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland, succeeded in cloning sheep from fetal and embryonic cells, and in February of 1997, they made the sensational announcement that they had obtained a sheep, which they named Dolly, from a clone obtained from the cell of an adult female sheep.
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