replicate

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The Mayo study found that nanobacteria do indeed self-replicate, as Kajander had noticed, and endorsed the idea that the particles are life forms.

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  1. transitive verb To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat.
  2. transitive verb Biology To reproduce or make an exact copy or copies of (genetic material, a cell, or an organism).
  3. transitive verb To fold over or bend back.
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  • They also can't self-replicate, although they can presumably be mass-produced by a sufficiently advanced nanotechnology. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • He orchestrated the frame-up of the divining chalice in Benyamin's sack to replicate, as much as was possible, the circumstances of Yehuda's sin of having sold Yoseph. —  Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva site for Baalei Teshuva and Other Growth Oriented Jews
  • Learning to research and spy on your affiliate competition to see what keywords are working for them will also help you to replicate, and improve on their results. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The plasmids replicate, but they do so somewhat inefficiently, Thomson explains, so that after they perform the job of reprogramming, they can subsequently be weeded out, leaving the induced cells free of any exotic genetic material.
  • There are no cells, as Wired reports, but a set of 'hacked RNA' that self-replicate: —  Science News
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  1. Middle English replicaten, from Late Latin replicāre, replicāt-, to repeat, from Latin, to fold back : re-, re- + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin replicatus, past participle of replicare, fold or bend back, reply: see reply.
  2. =F. répliqué =Spanish Portuguese replicado =Italian replicato, from Latin replicatus, past participle of replicare, fold or bend back: see replicate, v.
 

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