clone

1. Biology a group of organisms or cells of the same genetic constitution that are descended from a common ancestor by asexual reproduction, as by cuttings, grafting, etc., in plants

2. a segment of DNA that has been isolated and replicated by laboratory manipulation: used to analyse genes and manufacture their products (proteins)

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clone

[klōn]

(biology)

All individuals, considered collectively, produced asexually or by parthenogenesis from a single individual.

(computer science)

A hardware or software product that closely resembles another product created by a different manufacturer or developer, in operation, appearance, or both.

(genetics)

An organism whose diploid nuclear genome was derived from a somatic cell of another organism of the same species using biotechnologys.

A copy of a genetically engineered DNA sequence.

clone

One of a series of plants that is reproduced by cuttings or other vegetative methods for several generations.

clone

(jargon)

1. An exact copy of a product, made legally or illegally, from documentation or by reverse engineering, and usually cheaper.

E.g. "PC clone": a PC-BUS/ISA, EISA, VESA, or PCI compatible x86-based microcomputer (this use is sometimes misspelled "klone" or "PClone"). These invariably have much more bang per buck than the IB PCM they resemble.

E.g. "Unix clone": An operating system designed to deliver a Unix-like environment without Unix licence fees or with additional "mission-critical" features such as support for real-time programming.

2. <chat> A clonebot.

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clone

(1) To make an identical copy of something. See cloning software.

(2) A product that functions like another. The clone, which may be hardware, software or both, may not look exactly like the original, but it implies 100% functional compatibility with it. Fed the same input, the clone should produce the same output. See PC clone, white box and clean room technique.

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Clone

several successive generations of hereditarily similar organisms (or individual cells in cultures), formed as a result of asexual or vegetative reproduction from a common ancestor.

Isolating a clone is one of several ways of obtaining genotypically uniform material. However, because of possible mutations, the genotypic homogeneity of a clone is relative. The varieties of plants cultivated vegetatively (for example, the potato) are often individual clones.

In microbiology and protistology, a clone is the set of progeny of a single parental cell.

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To date, the most commonly used assay for determining the clonal relationship between 2 lymphomas has been PCR-based clonality analysis using capillary electrophoresis for rearrangement visualization.

Molecular Fingerprinting of Anatomically and Temporally Distinct B-Cell Lymphoma Samples by Next-Generation Sequencing to Establish Clonal Relatedness

Clonal complex 398 methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, a frequent unspecialized human pathogen with specific phenotypic and genotypic characteristics.

Severe Disseminated Infection with Emerging Lineage of Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

The results showed that the clonal origin of the tumors was the coexistence of MO and IM.{Figure 1}{Table 1}

Clinical Features and Clonal Origin of Diffuse Hepatocellular Carcinoma

The first stage consisted in the formation of the clonal mini garden with rooted minicuttings of the Arbequina cultivar, aiming the collection of propagative material from the olive ministumps: the experimental delimitation was the randomized complete block design, in a factorial arrangement of 2x3 (cropping systems x evaluation dates) with four repetitions for each cropping system, constituted of 12 ministumps each.

Rooting of olive minicuttings at different seasons grown in clonal minigarden

Key words: Fargesia decurvata; spacer length; clonal growth; clonal integration; ramet class.

EFFECTS OF CANOPY CONDITION AND RAMET CLASS ON CLONAL PLASTICITY OF DWARF BAMBOO, FARGESIA DECURVATA, IN AN EVERGREEN BROADLEAVED FOREST IN THE JINFO MOUNTAINS, CHINA

Desta forma, objetivou-se avaliar a produtividade de minicepas e o enraizamento das miniestacas de hibridos de Eucalyptus globulus em resposta a concentracoes de nitrogenio aplicadas em fertirrigacao de minijardim clonal.

Productivity of ministumps and rooting of minicuttings of hybrids of Eucalyptus globulus labill in response to nitrogen/Produtividade de minicepas e enraizamento de miniestacas de hibridos de Eucalyptus globulus labill. Em resposta a nitrogenio

When 3T3-L1 preadipocyte cells are induced to differentiate, the cells are known to undergo several rounds of mitosis referred to as mitotic clonal expansion.

Lignosulfonic acid promotes hypertrophy in 3T3-L1 cells without increasing lipid content and increases their 2-deoxyglucose uptake

As described above, clonal expansion in a B or T cell type occurs after it has a productive binding interaction with a non-self ligand.

Immune repertoire analysis is gaining interest as a clinical IMGS application

Para la formacion del minijardin clonal se utilizaron miniestacas de pitanguera enraizadas, que se llamaron minicepas.

Nitrogen doses on adubation in clonal mini garden of surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora)/Dosis del nitrogeno en el abonado de minijardin clonal de pitangueras (Eugenia uniflora)

Using a novel combination of both aCGH and SNP data, in this study, we established further indicators for identifying multiple related clonal populations.

Detection of clonal evolution in hematopoietic malignancies by combining comparative genomic hybridization and single nucleotide polymorphism arrays

The clonal mini-hedge was established in polyethylene trays, placed in a greenhouse and fertirrigated as described in BANDINELLI et al.

Production and rooting of cordial--Cordia trichotoma (Veil.) Arrab. ex Steud. mini-cuttings collected from ministumps of asexual and seminal origin/Producao e enraizamento de miniestacas de louro-pardo--Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arrab. ex Steud. coletadas de minicepas de origem assexuada e seminal

The first newly allowed patent application, serial No: 05723389.2, named 'Systems and Methods for Clonal Expression in Plants' and covers claims to a system for generating transgenic hairy root cells containing a viral vector expressing a gene of interest.

iBio receives two European patent applications for protein expression technologies