Biology GCSE
Cloning
What Cloning means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Produces genetically identical offspring from a single parent cell or organism, so the offspring have the same genes as the parent.
Producing many identical cells from a single hybridoma cell, in a culture vessel or in a host animal depending on the method used.
Topics that use Cloning
- Producing monoclonal antibodies (AQA GCSE)
- Stem cells (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Medical applications
- adult stem cells
- Antigen-antibody specificity
- Cell nucleus transfer
- clone
- Clones
- Conservation
- Differentiation
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