Clone

"'Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down"

– Weird Al Yankovic, "I think I'm a Clone Now"

Strawberry plants regularly clone themselves, they send out runners which grow into new plants that can survive just fine even if the original plant dies

A Clone is an organism created from the same genetic information from another organism. Clone comes from the Greek word for "twig", as you can clone a lot of plants by cutting off a branch or a leaf and planting it. This is done extensively in certain fields of agriculture, though it has it's problems relating to disease vulnerabilities (see the Irish Potato Famine or Gros Michel Bananas). Some animals also reproduce via cloning, with females making identical twins of themselves.

But as a general rule, when people talk about cloning they talk more about human clones by artificial means, taking a gene sample, fertilizing an egg and growing it to maturity usually in some form of Exowomb.

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