What are some examples of cloning in life?

1, Kervielmutter of Roslin Institute in England and others announced the success of cloning sheep with somatic cells, which caused great shock all over the world. For a time, Dolly the cloned sheep became the most dazzling in the animal kingdom.

2, cactus: cut the cactus in half and "clone" it in half. ? A grape branch cut into ten segments may become ten grapes; Cactus is cut into several pieces, and each piece takes root when it hits the ground; A strawberry can grow hundreds of strawberry seedlings a year by leaning on the creeping stolon on the ground.

3. Clone potatoes, cut into blocks along the bud head and implant them in the soil respectively, so that several potatoes can be cloned; Blow dandelion fluff gently, and it will spread around, sow and clone more dandelions; When the seeds produced by sunflower are replanted underground, it will become a sunflower with several seeds.

Extended data

Cloning is a transliteration of the English word "clone" or "clone", and the English word "clone" comes from the Greek word "Klone", which originally meant to cultivate plants through asexual reproduction or asexual reproduction, such as cutting and grafting. In Chinese mainland, it is translated as "asexual reproduction", and in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, it is generally translated as reproduction, colonization or colony.

There are more exact words in Chinese to express cloning, such as "asexual reproduction", "clone" and "pure line". Cloning refers to the asexual reproduction of organisms through somatic cells and the group of offspring individuals with the same genotype formed through asexual reproduction. Usually, individuals or groups with the same genes as the original individuals are produced through asexual reproduction by biotechnology.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cloning