Your investments (mutual funds, stocks, etc.) are not insured against market risk â their value may go up or down depending on the market. You are, however, likely insured against the failure of your broker, or a bankâs brokerage subsidiary, by the Securities Investors Protection Corporation.
What is disk cloning? Disk cloning is the act of copying the contents of a computer's hard drive. The contents are typically saved as a disk image file and transferred to a storage medium, which could be another computer's hard drive or removable media such as a DVD or a USB drive. Purposes of disk cloning include:
Overview: DNA cloning. Definition, purpose, and basic steps of DNA cloning. DNA cloning is a molecular biology technique that makes many identical copies of a piece of DNA, such as a gene. In a typical cloning experiment, a target gene is inserted into a circular piece of DNA called a plasmid.