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No. Midichlorians react to the presence of Force Sensitivity in living beings, but they are not the cause of it.
The Force is the Force. It is omnipresent in all things, both animate and inanimate, but biological beings are unique in that they form a kind of symbiotic relationship with it.
The midichlorians are present in the cells of Force Sensitive beings because they just really like being close to such a powerful conduit. if they were forcibly moved elsewhere, you would still not be able to feel the Force and your own cells would replace them over time anyway.
This is how I imagine it. Midichlorians are like bugs around a bright lamp. Moving the bugs to an unlit lamp will not create light in the unlit lamp, nor will it diminish the light from the bright lamp.
The force is definitely more than just the mechanics of biology. I can't imagine a blood transfusion does anything. It shouldn't connect you to the force any more than chopping off a Jedi's arm and waving it around would.
And there are loads of inanimate objects strongly connected to the force: holocrons, kyber crystals, whatever materials are used to construct and paint Jedi temples, etc. Droids are too.