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Biont
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| The wide range of sizes and forms that humanoid bionts can take in the Terragen Sphere | |
Any organic life form, Terragen or otherwise, whether natural or engineered. Most often this term is used exclusively for organic beings of sophont-grade intelligence, since the root of the word is "biological sophont". Among Terragens, many bionts are of humanoid form derived from the original human baseline shape, either by descent or imitation, although there are many other body-plans.
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- Citizens (Zars)
- Clade (sophontology)
- Cladism (provolutionist) - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A preference for or tendency towards evolving into clades and sub-clades. - Dogfolk
- Enhanced Dolphins
- Gaian Whale
- Goliaths
- Grays
- Homorph, Alien - Text by Steve Bowers
Xenosophonts who deliberately adopt human (or general terragen hominid) form, morphology, or biochemistry. While homomorphism is fairly popular among some alien races and clades, many alien societies are under embargo to avoid cross-cultural pollution, so the homorph is often illegal. See also Toulhuman. - Keruing, Clade
- Kobolds
- Lauro, Clade
- Mammal
- Martian Tweaks
- Merpeople
- Methuselahs
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- Nauri
- Neb
- Neo-Pigs
- Nephilim, The
- Nisse, Clade
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- Pet Humans
- Phenotype - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The appearance of an organism with respect to a particular group of physical, biochemical, and physiologic characteristics, as a result of the interaction of its genotype and its environment. - Phenotypic Augmentation - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Biological or genetic modification or augmentation that effects the phenotype only. It alters the characteristics of the user, and sometimes also that of clones from the user's somatic cells, but it does not modify the user's offspring. Contrast with genotypic augmentation. - Putorians, Neputons, and Nanputons
- Relanimal - Text by Jorge Ditchkenberg
A relifed animal. - Rise of Homo Superior
- Rodent
- Sailors of the Ebon Sea
- Siberoo
- Sophants (Sophont Elephants)
- Space People - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
[1] (archaic) A common early term for Space Adapted Humans, still used by some descendants of the original clade.
[2] (Integration period) A term for vacuum adapted tweaks, now rarely used. - Space Spiders
- Subsophont - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A being - whether biological or aioidal, that may be sentient but has not developed true sophonce. - Supersophonts
- Tavi, Clade
- Tiger Splices
- To'ul'human - Text by Steve Bowers
Homorph To'ul'h who have been given or adopted human shape by advanced biotech. They also can take To'ul'h form in earthlike environments or adapted human form in toulovenusian environments. - Toy Humans
- Tro'el, Clade
- Twin Clades
- Ungulate - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
General term for terragen hoofed, herbivorous, placental mammals. The hoof is made of the protein keratin. Representative baseline ungulates include horses, sheep, pigs, deer, camels, bovids, and many other species. Many ungulate species have been provolved, others have been raised to presophonce, or geneered or adapted in various ways. - Vampires
- Werewolves
- Xenobiont
- Zooplankton - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Animals that float passively in the water as part of the plankton. Zooplankton feed on other plankton (phytoplankton, bacterioplankton or other zooplankton) and are in turn food for larger aquatic organisms. An important part of the aquatic ecology of any terragen and terragen-type ecosystem.
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Development Notes
Text by Stephen Inniss, based on the original by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 26 January 2009.
Initially published on 26 January 2009.
