More than 40% of the world's Catholics live in Latin America-but Africa has seen the biggest growth in Catholic congregations in recent years. Latin America accounts for 483 million Catholics, or 41.3% of the total Catholic population. Of the 10 countries in the world with the most Catholics, four are in Latin America.
DNA cloning is the process of making multiple, identical copies of a particular piece of DNA. In a typical DNA cloning procedure, the gene or other DNA fragment of interest (perhaps a gene for a medically important human protein) is first inserted into a circular piece of DNA called a plasmid.
We use the word 'clone' to refer to the person or organism that results from. cloning, and 'clonee' to refer to the person who is genetically copied. A technique that is sometimes seen. as cloning is artificial twinning, the separation of the two cells of an embryo that has divided once. In this.