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    clone
    /kləʊn/

    noun

    • 1. an organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical: "vines representing all the 15 existing clones were planted"
    • 2. (within gay culture) a gay man who adopts an exaggeratedly macho appearance and style of dress. informal

    verb

    • 1. propagate (an organism or cell) as a clone: "of the hundreds of new plants cloned the best ones are selected"

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishCLONE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    CLONE definition: 1. a plant or animal that has the same genes as the original from which it was produced 2. someone…. Learn more.

  3. www.britannica.com › science › cloningCloning | Definition, Process, & Types | Britannica

    Aug 20, 2024 · Cloning, the process of generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism. Cloning happens often in nature, as when a cell replicates itself asexually without genetic alteration or recombination. Learn more about cloning experiments, cloning techniques, and the ethics of human reproductive cloning.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CloningCloning - Wikipedia

    The term clone is used in horticulture to refer to descendants of a single plant which were produced by vegetative reproduction or apomixis. Many horticultural plant cultivars are clones, having been derived from a single individual, multiplied by some process other than sexual reproduction. [ 22 ]

  5. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › cloneClone Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Cloning is the production of a population of genetically identical cells or of organisms asexually produced by a single cell or organism. Cloning is fundamental to most living things, since the body cells of plants and animals are clones that come from a single fertilized egg.

  6. www.nationalgeographic.org › encyclopedia › cloningCloning - National Geographic Society

    Oct 19, 2023 · To clone a gene, researchers take DNA from a living creature and insert it into a carrier like bacteria or yeast. Every time that carrier reproduces, a new copy of the gene is made. Animals are cloned in one of two ways.

  7. www.livescience.com › how-cloning-worksHow does cloning work? - Live Science

    Nov 17, 2021 · In humans, every cell in the body is a clone of the first embryo cell created when the father's sperm fertilized the mother's egg, and identical twins are natural clones.

  8. www.thoughtco.com › all-about-cloning-373337Cloning: Types, Technique, Animals and More - ThoughtCo

    Jul 19, 2019 · Clones of adult animals are created by a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. In this process, the nucleus from a somatic cell is removed and placed into an egg cell that has had its nucleus removed. A somatic cell is any type of body cell other than a sex cell.

  9. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryCLONE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    CLONE meaning: 1. a plant or animal that has the same genes as the original from which it was produced 2. someone…. Learn more.

  10. www.genome.gov › about-genomics › fact-sheetsCloning Fact Sheet - National Human Genome Research Institute

    Aug 15, 2020 · The term cloning describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies of a biological entity. The copied material, which has the same genetic makeup as the original, is referred to as a clone.

  11. learn.genetics.utah.edu › content › cloningWhat is Cloning - University of Utah

    When scientists clone a gene, they isolate and make exact copies of just one of an organism's genes. Cloning a gene usually involves copying the DNA sequence of that gene into a smaller, more easily manipulated piece of DNA, such as a plasmid.