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Clone   /kloʊn/   Listen
noun
clone  n.  
1.
(Biol.) A group of organisms derived from a single individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; used mostly of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast.
Synonyms: clon.
2.
(Biol.) An individual organism containing a genetic complement identical to that of another organism, produced by using the genetic material from the second animal in a non-sexual reproduction process.
3.
Something virtually identical to another object.


verb
clone  v. t.  
1.
(Biol.) To make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.
2.
(Microbiol.) To grow colonies of a microorganism by spreading a suspension of the microorganism onto a solid growth medium (such as in a Petri dish), at a concentration such that individual colonies will grow from single cells sufficiently well separated from other colonies so that pure cultures derived from a single organism can be isolated.
3.
(Biochem.) To make large quantities of a segment of DNA by inserting it, using biochemical techniques, into the DNA of a microorganism, and growing that microorganism in large numbers; as, to clone the gene for growth hormone.





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"Clone" Quotes from Famous Books



... eagerly, "the owner's name is upon the box; and see! here is a letter addressed to 'Arthur Montgomery, Bart., Clone, Lancaster County, England.' I think I ...
— Eric - or, Under the Sea • Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels
... contrariety to everything hitherto heard of, as any of our voyagers and travellers of discovery have been by the barbarous tribes who had never before seen civilized man, or as the Spaniards on their arrival in Mexico or Peru. They might, as the voyagers have clone, experience every local difference of moral temperament, from that which hailed them with acclamations, to that which often exploded in a volley of mud and stones; but through all these varieties of greetings, there was a strong sense of something ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster
... set will be the people that do not belong to Him. Then He will welcome the first set, and bless them, because they have done things to the poor and miserable such as they would have liked to have done to themselves. And He will say 'Inasmuch as ye have clone it to one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.' " Daisy's eyes were full of ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell
... to hire a girl "for general house-work," and train her for her work as waitress, than to take one who has clone nothing else but wait at table. Be particular, when engaging a girl, to tell her what she has to do, as many of the lofty kind object particularly to blacking boots; and as it must be done, it is better to define ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood


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