Clone vs Twin - What's the difference?
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A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.[http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2754]
To create a clone.
Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
(US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
A twin crystal.
(modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
(modifier) Forming a matched pair.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To separate, divide.
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
(usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
* Tennyson
To give birth to twins.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
(obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
As a verb clone
is .As a noun twin is
(baseball) a player that plays for the.clone
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* holoclone * meroclone * paraclone * polycloneVerb
(clon)References
* C.L. Pollard. "'Clon' versus 'clone'". Science (new series) 22:469, 1905. * C.L. Pollard. "On the spelling of 'clon'". Science (new series) 22:87-88, 1905. * W.T. Stearn. "The use of the term 'clone'". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 74:41-47, 1949. ----twin
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Alternative forms
* twynne (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- the twin boys
- twin socks
Derived terms
* conjoined twin * identical twin * Siamese twin *twincestSynonyms
* twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)See also
* twyndyllyng * (hotel room) single, double * twainVerb
(twinn)- Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
- For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
- Still we moved / Together, twinned , as horse's ear and eye.
- “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
- (Shakespeare)
