How to say "clone" in Japanese

• クローンCommon
  nounThe default word for 'clone' in any sense: an identical copy, or a genetically identical person, animal or cell. If you mean cloning in biology or 'clone' as a loanword, this is the word you want.
  倫理りんり委員会いいんかいでは, クローン実験じっけんの一時停止いちじていしが決定けっていした。↗

  At the ethics committee, a temporary halt to cloning experiments was decided.
• 互換機ごかんき
  nounCovers only the computing sense: a machine built to work like another model, glossed as 'clone (e.g. IBM PC)' or 'workalike'. For living or generic clones it is not the word you want.

Use 「クローン」 for clones in general, including people, animals and cells; use 互換機 only for a computer that works like another model, as in an IBM-compatible machine.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• クローンclone
• 互換機ごかんきcompatible machine
• クローン人間クローンにんげん(human) clone