Replicant

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who makes a reply.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who replies.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. replicative
  • noun. An android that is an exact copy of a specific human, or is indistinguishable from a human
  • noun. One who replies.
  • Word Usage
    "(Conceptually, gene duplication is simply the duplication of a strand of information, so there is no logical requirement that this strand actually be a gene; it could be anything that conceivably encodes for a replicant, which is then subject to mutation and selection.)"