1. A cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell.
2. an organism descended asexually from a single ancestor, such as a plant produced by layering or a polyp produced by budding.
3. A dna sequence, such as a gene, that is transferred from one organism to another and replicated by genetic engineering techniques.
4. one that copies or closely resembles another, as in appearance or function: "filled with business-school clones in gray and blue suits” ( michael M. Thomas).
5. to make multiple identical copies of (a dna sequence).
6. to create or propagate (an organism) from a clone cell: clone a sheep.
7. to reproduce or propagate asexually: clone a plant variety.
8. to produce a copy of; imitate closely: "the look has been cloned into cliché” ( Cathleen McGuigan).
9. to grow as a clone.

1. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
2. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
3. to create a clone.

1. a group of organisms derived from a single individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; -- used mostly of microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast.
2. an individual organism containing a genetic complement identical to that of another organism, produced by using the genetic material from the second animal in a non-sexual reproduction process.
3. something virtually identical to another object.
4. to make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.
5. to grow colonies of a microorganism by spreading a suspension of the microorganism onto a solid growth medium (such as in a petri dish), at a concentration such that individual colonies will grow from single cells sufficiently well separated from other colonies so that pure cultures derived from a single organism can be isolated.
6. to make large quantities of a segment of dna by inserting it, using biochemical techniques, into the dna of a microorganism, and growing that microorganism in large numbers.

1. in pathology, the condition of clonus.
2. same as clon.
3. in the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, one of the branches of a spicule: generally restricted to tetraxial forms.

1. a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction
2. a person who is almost identical to another
3. make multiple identical copies of
4. an unauthorized copy or imitation