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Clone
kləʊn
Clone definitions
noun
clone
clones
- an organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical
"vines representing all the 15 existing clones were planted"
- a person or thing regarded as an exact copy of another
"guitarists who are labelled Hendrix clones"
- a computer designed to simulate exactly the operation of another, typically more expensive, model
"an IBM PC clone"
- (within gay culture) a gay man who adopts an exaggeratedly macho appearance and style of dress
verb
clone
cloned
clones
cloning
- propagate (an organism or cell) as a clone
"of the hundreds of new plants cloned the best ones are selected"
- make an identical copy of
"developers are planning to clone a historic Liverpool terrace"
- replicate (a fragment of DNA placed in an organism) so that there is sufficient to analyse or use in protein production
"we have cloned DNA sequences added to the ends of the linear plasmid"
- illegally copy the security codes from (a mobile phone) to one or more others as a way of obtaining free calls