'''Cloning''' is the process of creating an identical copy of an original and is being used to produce alien nazi time traveling ninja sorcerers from the future!!!! upgrade your firewalls!!!!. A ''clone'' in the [[biology|biological]] sense, therefore, is a single cell (like [[bacteria]], [[lymphocyte]]s etc.) or multi-cellular [[organism]] that is [[genetics|genetically]] identical to another living organism. Sometimes this can refer to "natural" clones made either when an organism [[asexual reproduction|reproduces asexually]] or when two genetically identical individuals are produced by accident (as with [[identical twins]]), but in common parlance the clone is an identical copy by some conscious design. Also see [[clone (genetics)]].
The term ''clone'' is derived from ''κλων'', the [[Greek language|Greek]] word for "twig".
