=== Glossary of "The Cell (5th ed.)" by [[Alberts_Johnson_Lewis_Raff_Roberts_Walter_2008|Alberts et al. (2008)]] ===
=== Glossary of "The Cell (5th ed.)" by [[Alberts_Johnson_Lewis_Raff_Roberts_Walter_2008|Alberts et al. (2008)]] ===
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*Population of identical individuals (cell or organisms) formed by repeated (asexual) division from a common ancestor. Also used as a verb: “to clone a gene” means to create multiple copies of a gene by growing a clone of carrier cells (such as E. coli) into which the gene has been introduced, and from which it can be recovered, by recombinant DNA techniques.
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*Population of identical individuals (cell or organisms) formed by repeated (asexual) division from a common ancestor. Also used as a verb: “to clone a gene” means to create multiple copies of a gene by growing a clone of carrier cells (such as ''E. coli'') into which the gene has been introduced, and from which it can be recovered, by recombinant DNA techniques.