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  1. noun A cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell.
  2. noun An organism descended asexually from a single ancestor, such as a plant produced by layering or a polyp produced by budding.
  3. noun A DNA sequence, such as a gene, that is transferred from one organism to another and replicated by genetic engineering techniques.
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  • Ironically, she offers, as an aside, the DNA-based cosmetic surgery that is crucial to Signs of Life; and she also proposes a mass media "clone" -- an "icon" -- by which the public image of a motion picture or rock star is given electronic life, the ultimate MTV video puppet. —  EBSCOhost
  • And so begins the hunting, the chasing, the skull-busting, the bleeding, the exploding, eventually culminating in Drucker's downfall and the revelation that the point-of-view character is Adam Gibson's clone, and the man he thought was a clone is the real Adam Gibson, something that has been made obvious early on, the scriptwriters apparently being unable to distinguish between foreshadowing an event and telegraphing it. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
  • By: maria | 18 / 12 / 2008 | Programming question answer script is a yahoo answer clone which is used to make question answer websites like wiki answer and yahoo answer. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Understanding that Forrester were not going to change into a Gartner-clone, my next question / complaint focused on whether the move to role-based research was simply a reactionary move as it is easier to manage a smaller number of roles than a huge number of technologies. —  ARmadgeddon
  • A fun retro-clone that works as its own self-contained game or as a clone of OD&D. —  Flames Rising Horror Webzine
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  1. Greek klōn, twig.

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  1. from New Latin clonus, q. v.
  2. Greek κλών, a twig, slip; related to κλάδος, a branch: see clon.
 

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