REPRODUCTIVE CLONING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Making a full living copy of an organism; requires a surrogate mother

Classified under:

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)