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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "cloning" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "cloning" over time.
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, by either natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without a mate is known as parthenogenesis. In the field of biotechnology, cloning is the process of creating cloned organisms of cells and of DNA fragments. Read more on Wikipedia