cloning

English Thesaurus

1. a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) (noun.act)

hypernym	:	biological research,
definition	:	scientific research conducted by biologists (noun.act)

hyponym	:	reproductive cloning,
definition	:	making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother (noun.act)

hyponym	:	biomedical cloning, therapeutic cloning,
definition	:	nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant (noun.act)