Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an original organism or thing.<\/p>\n
A cloning in the biological sense, therefore, is a molecule, single cell (like bacteria, lymphocytes etc.) or multi-cellular organism that has been directly copied from and is therefore genetically identical to another living organism. <\/p>\n
Sometimes this term can refer to \"natural\" clones made either when an organism is asexually reproduced by chance (as with identical twins), but in common parlance, a clone is an identical copy created intentionally. <\/p>\n
Molecular cloning refers to the procedure of isolating a DNA sequence of interest and obtaining multiple copies of it in an organism. <\/p>\n
Cloning is frequently employed to amplify DNA fragments containing genes, an essential step in their subsequent analysis. <\/p>\n
Frequently, the term cloning is misleadingly used to refer to the identification of the chromosomal location of a gene associated with a particular phenotype of interest. <\/p>\n
In practice, localisation of the gene does not always enable one to amplify the relevant genomic sequence. <\/p>\n
Cloning of any DNA sequence involves the following four steps: amplification, ligation, transfection, and screening \/ selection. <\/p>\n
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