to clone
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4.5
- verb
- /kloʊn/
- Specialized
:
clonar
- If you can clone a sheep, you can clone a human being.
- clone humans
- clone a human being
- clone a Neanderthal
And it's through their attempts to clone life.
- And it's through their attempts to clone life.
- It's weird to be able to clone something and or someone.
- If you can clone a sheep, you can clone a human being.
- This is supposed to just be the display upstairs cloned to this spot.
- Some ask whether the ethics of gene edited and cloned animals should vary across species.
- If you love your animals, if you love all animals, don't clone your animals.
- Like you clone it with whatever its closest genome.
- Epigenetics is the reason why it is possible to clone animals.
- Do you think if they cloned or if they can, if possible, they cloned like Jurassic Park.
- They're versions of the original, like Multiplicity, like Michael Keaton, like he keeps cloning versions of himself.
- Well, I guess you can clone the lawyers to help manage some of these negotiations.
- I mean, it's not a, it's not a sired animal, it's cloned.
Examples
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Do you think they're trying to develop a way to clone themselves?
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This is actually incredible and I can't believe that you're allowed to clone your dog.
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What changes would there be in the law if we did clone whole individuals?
Academic text (1998) -
Can you clone a living organism from the hair of a dead man?
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If enough DNA fragments were recovered, it might be possible to clone a living animal.
Fiction book (1990) -
The best way to clone Neanderthals may be to create stem cells that have their DNA.
Academic text (2010) -
Now the National Institutes of Health has funded two projects to clone rhesus monkeys.
Academic text (1999) -
Mark Rothstein: Many of the objections to the prospect of cloning humans are due to scientific uncertainty.
Academic text (1998) -
The objective of the present study was to clone the anthracnose resistance gene in cucumber lines Gy14 and WI 2757.
Academic text (2018) -
Scientists are now able to clone certain animals for research purposes.
Synonyms
328
1.0
Make the same words or pictures as the original
102
4.5
To make a thing again so it looks like the original
75
3.2
To increase in number quickly by making more of something
66
4.9
To make an exact copy of something, often in a lab
41
4.0
To make a copy of something that looks like the original
1
8.6
To make a copy of a file or recording
How Exact
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clone comes from the old Greek word klon meaning 'twig', because gardeners could grow a new plant from one cutting; to clone something today is to make an identical copy of it, just like making a new plant from a single twig.