Replica plating: a technique in microbiology that allows you to duplicate colonyplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigClone: Depending on the context, this word can have a few different meanings:

* In the context of genes, cloning means that the physical identity of a gene has been found, and the gene has been sequenced. * In the context of DNA, a cloned DNA fragment is one that has been inserted into some kind of patterns on different Petri dishesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPetri dish: a round dish, usually 5-10 cm in diameter, that can contain growth media to grow cells in vitro. such that clonesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigClone: Depending on the context, this word can have a few different meanings:

* In the context of genes, cloning means that the physical identity of a gene has been found, and the gene has been sequenced. * In the context of DNA, a cloned DNA fragment is one that has been inserted into some kind of can be easily tested on different kinds of selectiveplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigSelection: There are two distinct but somewhat related definitions for this term:

In model organism research, a selection is a process through which a researcher is attempting to find rare individuals with certain phenotypes and has some way of enriching for the rare individuals by killing off all other individuals that do not match the search criteria. Contrast to a media.