clone

noun

Pronunciation: /kloʊn/ / /kləʊn/

Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.

A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
“This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.”
A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
“[…] each identified blastomere, and the clone of its descendant cells, plays a specific role in later development”
A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
“The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.”
A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
“Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.””
A Castro clone.
“Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.”
“By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct radical faggots.”

Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.

To create a clone of.
“The scientists were able to clone a sheep.”
“We cloned the database to perform some testing.”