clone

Examples

• All

• But the vaccines were tested using a clone of stem cells.

• Six mutations showed up at high frequency in many of the clones by generation eight.

  Academic text (1993)

• So they have everything that made that a good clone except the growth factors.

• No single clone replaced all of the others.

• And there you go, that clone contains your sequence.

• These are all the first cloned animals of their type.

• One of their goals was to produce fish clones for agricultural and commercial purposes.

  Academic text (1999)

• Yet this approach for sequencing clone libraries is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and, above all, quite costly.

  Academic text (2008)

• We have chronicled various technical and social microcosms of clones and cloning in the 23rd century.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Clones lack genetic plasticity.

  Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Synonyms

D

duplicate

vsclone

55 3.2

A copy that is exactly the same as the original

is used for groups formed from one original cell by asexual reproduction

R

replicant

vsclone

1 9.1

An exact copy of an object or person

is specific to biological groups produced asexually rather than general copies

C

clon

vsclone

• Specialized

9.9

Group of cells or organisms that are exact genetic copies of one original cell

is the same in meaning but differs as a spelling variant

How Exact

clone

• Specialized

97 4.2

to replicate

• Specialized

66 4.9

to copy

328 1.0

to recreate

102 4.5

to approximate

14 4.6

Surface Forms

Etymology