cloning

clone | American Dictionary

clone
noun[ C ]
us/kloʊn/
biology
a cell or organism that has the exact same chemical patterns in its cells as the original from which it was artificially produced
clone
verb[ T ]
us/kloʊn/
to produce a clone

clone | Business English

clone
noun[ C ]
uk /kləʊn/us
PRODUCTION
a product that is very similar to another one that it was copied from:
The doll was created as a cheap Barbie clone.
IT
a computer that operates in a very similar way to the one that it was copied from:
His competitive pricing helped launch the IBM-PC clone industry during the 1980s.
clone
verb[ T ]
uk /kləʊn/us
PRODUCTION
to create a product that is very similar to another one:
The idea was pioneered by Freemarket, and cloned by countless others.
to create an illegal copy of something such as a credit card:
The card is then cloned and cash taken from the victim's account.

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After each split, clones are assigned to the new nodes using the majority rule, and the apparent misclassification rate of the tree is calculated.
The observed morphological variation was probably due to genetic differences, since all clones were reared in a common environment.
Therefore, aphid clones were categorized into two colours: red and green.
An answer to a complex problem : cloning the mouse t-complex responder.
In particular, the slowest developing clones were most likely to be missing from our estimates.
The two values are equal when clones are equally frequent.
The selfed parent and outcrossed progeny genotypes are cloned and assayed in one common environment.
Of the clones, 21 were full-length (2n9 kb) elements and the rest were shorter elements due to internal deletions.
Numbers of clones identified are given on the right.
Samples of clones were put in the middle of a plate before being dispersed.
Many of the clones also contained tri-, tetra and pentanucleotide repeat units near the dinucleotide repeat.
Overlapping clones (four phages) spanning 22 kb were recovered.
A 300 bp repeat was identified in two clones.
Preimplantation and postimplantation development of rat embryos cloned with cumulus cells and fibroblasts.
Transmitochondrial differences and varying levels of heteroplasmy in nuclear transfer cloned cattle.
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