What's the difference in a clone and a doppelganger?

A clone is a life form that has exactly the same DNA as another life form. Identical twins and triplets are clones, and clones can also be made artificially, by dividing clusters of cells in the very early stages of embryonic development, or from the body cells of fully grown organisms (which is the difficult part).



A doppelganger has a less specific meaning. It can be a person who happens to look exactly like another person (not an identical twin, or a clone): it can be the ghost of a LIVING person, who is said to appear to that person's loved ones when that person is under great stress: or in some kinds of mythology it is a spirit which resembles you and will take your life given half a chance.



Similar to what Jon says 'clone' is a word with a specific meaning. 'Doppelganger' relates more to the paranormal.What's the difference in a clone and a doppelganger?
Well they both can mean a copy of something. However, literally they mean different things.

Doppelganger is a ghost of a person who hangs around the person to bother him or her.



A clone means a direct copy of something but may have different qualities or value. For example you can have a clone (copy) of a priceless diamond ring. In appearance they are the same, but upon closer inspection you find the clone uses cheaper materials.
Clone is a being that is grown from one cell of its parent and that has exactly the same genes as its parent.



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Doppelganger is a killer clone created through genetic manipulation.What's the difference in a clone and a doppelganger?
A clone is a direct copy of your genetic code so essentially it is another you. A doppelganger is someone who looks very similar to you but doesn't share the same genetic code - it's biological happenstance.What's the difference in a clone and a doppelganger?
I believe a clone is an exact replica, where as a doppelganger is the spirit of a person, who appears to persons known to them, just before their time of their death.
I dunno if this is right or not, but my feeling about the difference in nuance between those 2 words:



Clone is scientific; doppelganger is literary.
Clone can be human, doppelganger is a ghost.

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