replicate
verb- [transitive] replicate something (formal)
to copy something exactly synonym duplicate复制;(精确地)仿制 - [transitive, intransitive] replicate (itself) (specialist)
(of a virus or a molecule )病毒或分子 to produce exact copies of itself 再造;再生;自我复制
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘repeat’): from Latin replicat-, from the verb replicare, from re- ‘back, again’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The current senses date from the late 19th cent.