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clone

美音:[kləun ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.无性系,无性繁殖,克隆 v.无性繁殖,复制

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名词:cloner 动词过去式:cloned 过去分词:cloned 现在分词:cloning 第三人称单数:clones 副词:clonally 形容词:clonal

clone


/kləʊn; klon/
n
1 (biology 生) (any of a) group of plants or organisms produced asexually from one ancestor 无性繁殖系(的个体).
2 (computing 计) computer designed to copy the functions of another (usu more expensive) model 仿制的计算机(通常指仿制较贵的)
*an IBM clone 仿IBM型号的计算机.

v [I, Tn] (cause sth to) grow as a clone (使某物)无性繁殖.
1. Even in terms of biology, a clone would not be identical to the "master copy".
    即使从生物学的角度看,克隆人也不会和"母本"一模一样。

2. Why would anyone want to clone a human being in the first place?
    首先,为什么有人想克隆人类?

3. Will it be possible to clone the dead?
    是否可能克隆死去的人?

4. What if parents decided to clone a child in order to harvest organs?
    如果父母决定克隆一个孩子以获得器官,那会怎样?

5. Why not clone humans as organ donors?
    那为什么不克隆人类来作为器官捐献者呢?

6. The clone's cells, for example, would have energy-processing machinery that came from the egg, not from the person who was cloned.
    比如,克隆人的细胞可能会有来自卵子而非被克隆人的能量加工机制。

7. There's the fear, for instance, that parents might clone a child for the sake of having "surplus parts" in case the original child needs an organ transplant.
    例如,有人担心父母克隆孩子是为了要有"备用器官",以备这个孩子器官移植之需。

8. That such couples have other options (artificially bringing egg and sperm together, or adopting a child) is not an argument for denying them the right to clone.
    这样的夫妇当然也有其他选择(人工授精,或收养孩子),但这不能作为剥夺他们克隆权利的借口。

9. Then he went ahead to clone an adult sheep.
    后来他又进一步克隆了一只成年绵羊。

10. Theoretically, Wilmut says, there is no reason his techniques couldn't someday be used to clone people.
    威尔莫特说,理论上,有理由相信他的技术某一天能被用来克隆人。

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