What can I call this 'Android'

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A biological being is created (by extraterrestrial technology w/o Human involvement) in a vat (if you like) and 'born' fully mature. Humanoid female. Could I described her as 'exogenetic biological being'? I don't think Android or biodroid is right. Looking to you guys for some input. Thanks.
 
Omits said:
A biological being is created (by extraterrestrial technology w/o Human involvement) in a vat (if you like) and 'born' fully mature. Humanoid female. Could I described her as 'exogenetic biological being'? I don't think Android or biodroid is right. Looking to you guys for some input. Thanks.
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Exogenetic appears to be a geologic term.


It sounds like you are descibing something like a replicant. But also a bioroid by Appleseed's definition. An imitation human.

Ahuman?
 
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If it was created based on human DNA it would be a clone.
If it was fully created by extraterrestrial design with ET bio-material and the humanoid form is coincidental, so a new creature, you should ask ET what to call it. But I suggest a bioloid
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I would call it whatever you want to call it. Perhaps make up a name? It's your story and your world building. Own the details. In the end the name is unimportant. The details of what it is, is the important part.
 
Parson said:
I would call it whatever you want to call it. Perhaps make up a name? It's your story and your world building. Own the details. In the end the name is unimportant. The details of what it is, is the important part.
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But you do get points for sounding cool.


With this type of thing I think it works well to have an official name, a derogatory one, and maybe an abbreviated name, depending on who's speaking. (Bladerunner used "skin job".) The OP might consider "golem" or something else off putting as well as a technical name.
 
Hm some thoughts there, thanks. She is a sort of clone as the DNA and memories been recovered from a murdered human but other biological parts are Alien. Can't be derogatory from the protagonist pov but maybe by humans if as a doppelganger not accepted on a legal basis or just fear of things Alien (not really Golem though except in a mud slinging context!). Replicant is close and maybe acceptable to the Humans so maybe I will think about that. Gynoid she is (in a generic sense a robot anyway) and really a humanoid (human-like organic in a futurist context).

I wonder if there is a fictional or otherwise classification system for such creations?
 
It might still be new enough to be up for grabs in definitions.

Swank said:
exogenetic appears to be a geologic term.
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exogenetic (not comparable)

  1. Existing or arising outside of a system or organism; exogenous
exogenous (not comparable)

  1. Having an external cause.
    1. (biology) Produced or originating outside of an organism.
    2. (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
    3. (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
    4. (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
    5. (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
  2. (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.

The key is the exo prefix being--outside of
Such as outside the system of genetics.

Where as if it is not developed from preexisting life you could call it.
Exobiogenetic

I think it could work; however it might be dependent on what you mean for it to be outside of.

Is it considered out side of human or homo-sapiens though it has a human form.

now something strange or foreign might be....
Xeno-genetic

Xeno-genetic though humanoid in form?

xenogenetic (not comparable) Being of foreign origin; having originated elsewhere.
 
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Omits said:
I wonder if there is a fictional or otherwise classification system for such creations?
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Since these are all fictional ideas, any classification system would be equally full of whimsy. So I'm going with "no".
 
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Since these are all fictional ideas, any classification system would be equally full of whimsy. So I'm going with "no".
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Yes but in an amusing way look down the line where an AI Robot/Android thinks about itself it may feel better if it had its own history or provenance if you like. :LOL:.
 
Do you want to stress that she's artificially created or that she's been created by aliens (or both!)? If the former, I'd go for "synthetic" or "artificial" human. "Exogenic", meaning "coming from outside" would be as good as "Exogenetic" to me. If this person contains alien DNA, then maybe "spliced" would work.
 
Put it this way she if her DNA is checked she would pass as the human she replaced (doppelganger–murdered w/o trace).
Replicant: (in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.
So replicant is really close a term used mainly since 1985 in Sc-Fi.
 
Had a thought here:
Did OP mean Ectogenetic--which is 'nother word for vat grown.

Ectogenesis (from the Greek ἐκτός, "outside," and genesis) is the growth of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo or fetus outside the mother's body, or the growth of bacteria outside the body of a host.
 
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