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CLONING
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb clone
Context examples:
Has been adapted as a cloning vector (canarypox vector) for use as a mammalian expression vector.
(Canarypox Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A cloning vector derived from the bacteriophage lambda.
(Cosmid Vector, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally, this phage is used in molecular biotechnology as a cloning vector for eukaryotic DNA.
(Bacteriophage P1, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cloning Laboratory Shared Resource provides restriction enzymes, DNA and RNA modification enzymes, host cell lines, kits, cloning and expression vectors, competent cells, molecular weight markers, and other chemicals and reagents for Cancer Center research projects in the fields of molecular biology and biochemistry.
(Cloning Laboratory Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Some members of this family were initially identified on the basis of their biological activities (e.g., IL-8, GRO), others were discovered using subtractive hybridization (e.g., RANTES) or signal sequence trap (e.g., PBSF/SDF-1)11 cloning strategies.
(Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)
Verb: To generate identical copies of a region of a DNA molecule or to generate genetically identical copies of a cell, or organism. Noun: The identical molecule, cell, or organism that results from the cloning process.
(Clone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Molecular biology technique that facilitates cloning or identification of specific proteins or peptides with a specific antigenic, ligand or protein-binding, enzymatic, or other biological property.
(Phage Display, NCI Thesaurus)
A plasmid especially designed for cloning of DNA or construction of recombinant DNA molecules.
(Plasmid Cloning Vector, NCI Thesaurus)
