Relating to or produced by cloning; derived from a single genetic source with identical DNA.
From 'clone' + '-al' suffix; the adjective form of clone, formed in modern scientific usage in the 20th century.
When scientists coined 'clonal' to describe identical organisms, they created a way to talk about genetic identity at a population level—revolutionary for understanding how plants reproduce and how bacteria evolve.
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