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clonal

a. 1 being created by asexual reproduction 2 pertaining to asexual reproduction

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clonal

adj. of or relating to a clone

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Clonal

Clonal may refer to

in Immunology:
  • Clonal deletion, a process by which B cells and T cells are deactivated before act significantly upon specific antigens
  • Clonal selection theory, a model for how the immune system responds to infection
  • Clonal anergy, a lack of reaction by the body's defense mechanisms to foreign substance
in Biology:
  • Clonal interference, a phenomenon that occurs when two (or more) beneficial mutations arise independently in different individuals in a genetically homogeneous population of an asexually reproducing organism
  • Aggregating anemone, also called clonal anemone
  • Vegetative cloning, a form of asexual reproduction in plants

Usage examples of "clonal".

They think Renna can help solve a problem that stumped even Lysos: how to spark clonal pregnancies entirely without sperm.

Inside this disk, and the second that soon appeared, would be the original tissue samples from which the clonal matrixes had been grown.

There are no memories of a past life for her, no such transference in the clonal processes, just a kind of presence faint as finger prints, as fractures in the lunar crust.

Their clonal twins were exposed to the virus in South Sector labs two and three years ago.

But enough to sense the shape of Zoe Fisher, a clonal baby raised in the hothouse politics of twenty-second-century Earth, young, fragile, terribly naive.

She had never imagined, w hen the requisition request came, that a simple clonal pregnancy would entail so many inconveniences!

Now we have already seen that continuity and growth of the soul takes place via the miracle of cloning, which enhances the soul-essence with each regeneration and renewal of the clonal self.

Preventive health measures have spread the vitality of early middle age well into the late sixties - my age - but except for clonal transplants, bioengi-neering, and other perqs for the very rich, no one in the Worldweb can expect to begin planning a family when they are seventy or expect to dance at their hundred-and-tenth birthday party.