I. ˈklōn noun
also clon ˈklōn, -än
( -s )
Etymology: Greek klōn twig, slip; akin to Greek klan to break — more at gladiator
biology : the aggregate of the asexually produced progeny of an individual whether natural (as the products of repeated fission of a protozoan) or otherwise (as in the propagation of a particular plant by budding or by cuttings through many vegetative generations)
II. noun
1.
a. : an individual grown from a single somatic cell of its parent and genetically identical to it
b. : a group of replicas of all or part of a macromolecule and especially DNA
2. : one that is or appears to be a copy of an original
a clone of a personal computer
III. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
transitive verb
1. : to propagate a clone from
frogs have been successfully cloned by transplanting nuclei from body cells to enucleated eggs
2. : to make a copy of
intransitive verb
: to produce a clone