Cloning is a technique used by scientists to make exact genetic copies of living things.

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Bacteria make exact copies of themselves each time they reproduce, making them a type of natural clone.

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Identical twins are similar to clones because they share almost the exact same genes.

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Scientists only clone animals in the lab, and not genes or cells.

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Somatic cell nuclear transfer is one of the two ways that animals can be cloned.

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Every time that a carrier reproduces, a new copy of a cloned gene is made.

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Livestock like cows and pigs have been cloned to produce more milk or meat.

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Cloning can be used to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth or giant panda.

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Scientists have successfully cloned a human being.

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Stem cells are an early form of cells that can develop into many different types of cells and tissues, and they can be created by cloning.

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