CLONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloning mean? 

• CLONING (noun)
  The noun CLONING has 1 sense:

1. a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)

  Familiarity information: CLONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cloning" is a kind of...):

biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cloning"):

reproductive cloning (making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother)

biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning (nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant)

 Context examples 

It is based on the cloning of DNA within a phage coat protein gene so that the resulting protein is expressed as a fusion expressed on the surface of the phage.

(Phage Display, NCI Thesaurus)

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

A shared facility which usually provides services for DNA and RNA isolation and DNA cloning and sequencing.

(Nucleic Acid Core Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

Such a cloning vector will usually have convenient restriction enzyme sites to facilitate the introduction of foreign DNA by ligation.

(Plasmid Cloning Vector, NCI Thesaurus)

A difference cloning method and a technique for comparison of two closely related cell types, e.g. a differentiated or transformed cell (tester) and the undifferentiated or normal cell (driver).

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

Combining gene editing technique called CRISPR with cloning, Harvard scientists created piglets that do not harbor viruses harmful to humans.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

In the case of a cDNA library the DNA inserts are copies of RNAs that have been reverse-transcribed into DNA prior to cloning.

(cDNA Library, NCI Thesaurus)

A cloning vector based upon the bacteriophage P1, with capability in accepting larger DNA inserts.

(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A cloning vector derived from the bacteriophage P1.

(P1 Vector, NCI Thesaurus)

After the first four G proteins (Gs, Gt, Gi, and Go) were identified by biochemical purification, a large number of G proteins and their subunits were identified by cDNA cloning (2).

(Heterotrimeric G Protein, NCI Thesaurus)