Generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism

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The procedure for making a clone isn't all that complicated. You take the DNA from an adult cell

and put it into an egg from which most of the DNA has been removed. You then coax the egg to

behave as if it were fertilised. If it does, the resulting embryo will be a genetic copy of the adult

animal. Put that embryo into a surrogate mother, and if everything goes well, you get offspring.

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