Como se dice "to clone" en castellano? Dictionary/text needed.

[Dr. Jorge Garrido]

Raymond Mejia <ray at helix.nih.gov> wrote:
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>Hello folks.  Can anyone tell me the Spanish translation for "to clone"?

>snip

Hello Raymond.
In Chile we employ the verb "clonar", which does not sound too barbarous, based on the acceptance by the Spanish Real Academia of the noun "clon" with precisely the same meaning of the English noun "clone".

Jorge