Occasionally, the term cloning is misleadingly used to refer to the identification of the chromosomal location of a gene associated with a particular phenotype of interest, such as in positional cloning.
Frecuentemente, o termo clonación é erroneamente utilizado para referirse á identificación dunha localización cromosómica dun xene asociado cun fenotipo de particular interese, coma na clonación posicional.