cloning

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1. cloning - Noun

2. cloning - Verb

Meaning

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

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I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning. Mitt Romney

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. Leon Kass

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. Mike Pence

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. Leon Kass

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. Leon Kass

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