Letter C

Clone

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Literally a fragment, the word in modern medical science has come to mean a replica, for example, of a group of bacteria or a macromolecule such as DNA.

Clone also refers to an individual developed from a single somatic (non-germ) cell from a parent, representing an exact replica of that parent.

A clone is a group of cells derived from a single ancestral cell

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