A waiver is a formal statement giving up a right. If you go on a school trip, your mom might sign a waiver saying that the school is not responsible if you get hurt on the trip. When you sign a waiver, youâre voluntarily giving up a privilege or legal right. A waiver is often required before you participate in something dangerous.
Strictly speaking, cloning is the creation of a genetic copy of a sequence of DNA or of the entire genome of an organism. In the latter sense, cloning occurs naturally in the birth of identical twins and other multiples.
Cloning. 1  We live in a brave new world in which reproductive technologies are ravaging as well as replenishing families. Increasingly common are variations of the situation in which baby's mother is also grandma-and sister.1 Sometimes extreme measures are necessary in order to have the kind of child we want.