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When scientists talk about "cloning", we're usually not talking about Dolly the sheep or Barbara Streisand's dogs. We clone a piece of DNA, often a gene, in order to study it. Learn how this technique is used in everyday science.
This video is part of the Bio-Dictionary for "The Explorer's Guide to Biology" (XBio for short), which is a bold re-imagining of the biology textbook for the 21st century. Visit explorebiology.org for free content that focuses on stories of scientific discovery.
When scientists talk about "cloning", we're usually not talking about Dolly the sheep or Barbara Streisand's dogs. We clone a piece of DNA, often a gene, in order to study it. Learn how this technique is used in everyday science.
This video is part of the Bio-Dictionary for "The Explorer's Guide to Biology" (XBio for short), which is a bold re-imagining of the biology textbook for the 21st century. Visit explorebiology.org for free content that focuses on stories of scientific discovery.
