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.
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clone
One of a series of plants that is reproduced by cuttings or other vegetative methods for several generations.
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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.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
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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