Talk:Variant Race

Note on the term "Chimera" vs. "Variant Race" (2025)

The term Chimera specifically means that the creature/species was Geneered from 2 or more species, or that a single species was used as a base species to which were added significant genetic modification sequences from one or more additional species. Simple engineered genetic modifications of aspects of existing species does not qualify it as a Chimera - it must be a hybrid or fusion of two or more distinct independently viable species in some way.

The usage of the term derives from the following background:

• wikipedia: Chimera (mythology)
• wikipedia: Chimera (genetics)
• wikipedia: Chimera (virus)
• wikipedia: Chimera (paleontology)
• wikipedia: Chimeric protein

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• --WHULorigan (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

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