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Correspondence
Nature 408, 905 (21 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35050264
Cloning's not a new idea: the Greeks had a word for it centuries ago
A. A. Diamandopoulos1 & P. C. Goudas1
- Chorio Romanou, 26500 Patras, Greece
The term 'cloning' originates from the Greek word clonos, meaning 'twig'; clonizo is the verb 'to cut twigs'. A kind of cloning has been widely used in agriculture for centuries: by this process a new tree is created from an adult tree's twig without use of its seed, analogous to the cloning of mammals from adult cells.
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