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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

clone

/(klōn)/ · IPA /kloʊn/
01 n. a group of organisms derived from a single individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; -- used mostly of microorganisms such as bacter…
  1. 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.(Biol.)
  2. 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.(Biol.)
  3. 3.
    something virtually identical to another object.
Syn. clon.
02 v. t. to make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.
  1. 1.
    to make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.(Biol.)
  2. 2.
    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.(Microbiol.)
  3. 3.
    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; as, to clone the gene for growth hormone.(Biochem.)