CLONE


Meaning of CLONE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

produce

Note that his method of producing clones was irreducibly simple: just breaking an embryo apart.

Dandelions produce seeds that are clones of themselves.

Note, too, that Driesch did not set out simply to produce clones of sea-urchins.

Right-to-life advocates worry that embryos will be wasted or discarded in attempts to produce a successful clone .

He produced bigger clones by embryo splitting, once deriving a set of quin lambs from an eight-cell embryo.

Note yet again, however, that it was not their prime intention to produce clones .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

These plants are all clones of the same original plant.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Can the day of the Stratocaster clone be gone?

He produced bigger clones by embryo splitting, once deriving a set of quin lambs from an eight-cell embryo.

It is making arrangements outside for continued support of its clone customers.

Power Computing was packed with show-goers curious to see the new, low-cost, high-performance Mac clones.

Quite distinct phenotypic modifications were elicited from the clone by the different ryegrass strains.

The 50 clones differed on average from one another in 3. 3 vegetative characters.

The cDNA clones were sequenced from both ends using standard forward and reverse primers.

When counting the number of links between two probes, missing clones are clearly of no relevance.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

It is only a matter of time before we are able to clone human beings.

The process allowed Scottish scientists to clone the sheep named Dolly.

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Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.

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