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Cloning is the genetically identical duplication of an organism through asexual reproduction. Scientists have made some mind boggling achievements with cloning, including the asexual reproduction of sheep and cows. There is much ethical debate as to how far and for what purpose cloning should be used. However cloning, or asexual propagation, has been common practice in the horticultural world for hundreds of years. Simply taking a stem cutting from a ‘parent or mother’ plant, rooting and planting it to create a new plant is cloning or asexual propagation in it’s most basic form.

Posted by Ms. Larkin