What are two different meanings for cloning?

Answer 1

Cloning (producing a clone) refers to creating a copy of a living organism. Some plants do this naturally, growing copies of themselves with the same genetic makeup. But for animals and humans, it would require growing a new individual from only a single parent.

Cloning has become used metaphorically for copying programs or operating parameters from one electronic device to another. This is sometimes illegally done to "piggyback" existing phone or data connections, often to record, intercept or steal information.

Answer 2

Cloning can refer to the process of making an exact genetic copy of an organism, known as reproductive cloning. It can also refer to the production of identical copies of a gene or DNA sequence, known as molecular cloning.