释义 |
clone 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 |