clone Definition
☆ clone (klōn)
noun
- Biol. all the descendants derived asexually from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, etc. or by fission, parthenogenesis, etc.
- an individual produced by cloning
- Informal a person or thing very much like another
- Comput. a hardware or software product, esp. a personal computer, designed to function like an original, typically higher-priced, product from another manufacturer
Etymology: < Gr klōn, a twig < klan, to break: see clastic
transitive verb cloned, clon′·ing
- to produce by cloning
- Informal to make a copy of; imitate
clone Related Forms
clon′al adjective
clon′·ally adverb
Clone Hacker Definition
clone Usage Examples
Converse of object
- isolate: All lines are cloned at least three times after primary fusion, and cloning continues until all clones isolated are secreting specific antibody.
- derive: When a sequence is based on clones derived from PCR amplification, a minimum of three clones must have been sequenced.
Adjective modifier
- genomic: Transcripts ( coding sequences ) are then identified from the genomic clones.
- sequenced: The contigs with sequenced clones are dumped from FPC and loaded into ACEDB.
- full-length: Efforts are now underway to identify the second genomic component ( if any ) and produce full-length clones of the virus.
- overlapping: Of these 4 overlaps were found to contain sequence variants between the sequence of the two overlapping clones.
- embryonic: He supports the use of the human embryo for experiments and the production of the embryonic human clone for the same purpose.
- resistant: Copying by reverse transcriptase is prone to errors, leading to a high mutation rate and appearance of drug resistant clones.
Modifies a noun
- trooper: Droid minions of the separatists threaten the peace, but clone troopers forming the Grand Army of the Republic are poised to strike.
- embryo: No-one has to clone embryos in order to make ends meet!
- stamp: The planners ' idea of history is mythical, echoed in the post-production of costume dramas that clone stamp the 20th century away.
- brush: Some of them will astound you, such as the clone brush or the selective eraser.
- node: The DOM user must explicitly clone Attr nodes to re-use them in other elements.
- sequence: Back to top How many clone sequences do I need to input?
Noun used with modifier
- cdna: Genes isolated from the area using cDNA clones might be incomplete.
- Breakout: We have... Brick Blast a decent Breakout clone, ANOTHER new section!
- GTA: An actually good-looking GTA clone, 2006-09-20 THQ did a very good job on this.
- T-cell: A T-cell clone was also detected in the peripheral blood before relapse in four cases.
- object: Object clone ( ) Returns a shallow copy of this TreeMap instance.
- T: There are homologous proteins in humans and we have isolated T cell clones from healthy individuals which react with both bacterial and human hsp60.
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