However, the project has received heavy criticism as it claims to have created a synthetic organism.

The computer program acts as a synthetic organism, filtering through all available material and displaying the results as a floating-3D world of data.

The fitness function is used to drive a given artificial evolution process to create synthetic organisms capable of performing a given task.

A fundamental principle of natural selection also applies to synthetic organisms when these have heritable properties.

He now works at his Institute to create synthetic (artificial) biological organisms, and to record genetic diversity in the world's oceans.

In many important ways, Vulture, you were a far more complex synthetic organism than I, or a Val.

Synthetic biology project to clean plastic pollution from the oceans using synthetic organisms.

In 2002 it was reported that poliovirus had been synthetically assembled in the laboratory, representing the first synthetic organism.

The team now plans to use the synthetic organism to work out the minimum number of genes needed for life to exist.

A plantoid is a hypothetical robot or synthetic organism designed to look, act and grow like a plant.