A person or organism that creates genetically identical copies of another organism through asexual reproduction.
From 'clone' (from Greek klon meaning 'twig' or 'branch') + -er (agent suffix). The term emerged in the 1970s as genetic cloning technology developed.
The most famous cloner's creation was Dolly the sheep in 1996—the first mammal cloned from an adult cell—which shocked the world and sparked debates about whether humans might be next!
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