REPRODUCTIVE CLONING
Dictionary entry overview: What does reproductive cloning mean? • REPRODUCTIVE CLONING (noun)
The noun REPRODUCTIVE CLONING has 1 sense:
1. making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother
Familiarity information: REPRODUCTIVE CLONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REPRODUCTIVE CLONING (noun)
Meaning:
Making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reproductive cloning" is a kind of...):
cloning (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reproductive cloning"):
human reproductive cloning (the reproductive cloning of a sentient human being; generally considered ethically unacceptable)
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