See Also: clonal aging(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Clonal(medicine)
clonal selection(medicine)
clonal deletion(medicine)
clonal anergy(medicine)
clonal expansion(medicine)
Clonal deletion(health)
Clonal selection theory(health)
clonal deletion theory(medicine)

clonal aging (medicine)


clonal aging


The deterioration in successive generations of a clone; thus paramecia and other simple forms, if allowed to reproduce asexually for a number of generations, invariably undergo deterioration, the characters of each group of descendants progressively departing from those of the original sexually produced ancestor.