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clone Definition

clone (klōn)

noun

  1. Biol. all the descendants derived asexually from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, etc. or by fission, parthenogenesis, etc.
  2. an individual produced by cloning
  3. Informal a person or thing very much like another
  4. 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

  1. to produce by cloning
  2. Informal to make a copy of; imitate

clone Related Forms

clonal adjective clon·ally adverb

Clone Hacker Definition

To create an identical copy of an original. A file folder on the host computer can be copied to a specified folder on another computer. In computing history, Personal Computers (PCs) capable of running software for the original IBM PC were called IBM clones.

See Also: Computer; Host.

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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