clonal

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As much as 50\% of some infected liver tissue may be built of such noncancerous, "clonal" populations, Sherman said.

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  1. Relating or pertaining to, or having the characters of, a clon. The differentiating clonal characters of chrysanthemums are mainly in the form and color of the flowers. H. J. Webber, in Science, Oct. 16, 1903, p. 502.

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  • There's no better tree to start off with than General Sherman, the famed Giant Sequoia in the Sequoia National Park, that is 275 feet tall, the largest non-clonal living tree on the face of the earth. —  TreeHugger
  • Aliquots of these non-clonal cell lines were cryopreserved in GF culture medium containing —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Finally, analysis of 362 clonal cell populations infected with the viral variants revealed that mutations in any of the Sp1 sites yield a 6-fold higher frequency of clonal bifurcation compared to that of the wild-type promoter. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We report here that clonal Jurkat cell lines selected for resistance to Fas-induced apoptosis were cross-resistant to VP-16 or staurosporin. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • "This is the danger of a clonal population," Professor Schuster said. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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