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Book 8 Unit 2 Cloning Book8Unit2cloning WarmingupandPre-reading Ⅰ.背景阅读 cloningisthetechniqueofproducingageneticallyidenticalduplicateofanorganism.Acloneissaidtobealldescendantsderivedasexuallyfromasingleindividual,asbycuttings,bulbs,byfission,bymitosis,orbyparthenogenesisreproduction.Itsoundsverydifferentandcomplicatedtous. Infact,inourdailylife,thishappensoften.Forexample,gardenerstakecuttingsfromgrowingplantstomakenewones.youoftenseethatyourmotherpicksasmallbranchfromagrowingplanttomakeanewone.Ifshelikesthiskindofflowers,shecandocloning.cloningalsohappensinanimalsorhumanbeingswhentw