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Cloning

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The process of making a clone, a genetically identical copy.

Cloning can refer to the technique of producing a genetically identical copy of an organism by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a body cell from the organism.

The first adult mammal cloned was Dolly the Sheep in 1997.

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