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Part of a series on speculative biology

Champion speciators
Development of intelligence
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligence
Intelligence on Earth
Offense and defense
Perception
Reproduction
Speculative bioenergetics
Speculative biomechanics
Speculative physiology
Vision

When designing an organism living on another planet, on Earth in a distant future or in an alternative timeline, it's important that each of its characteristics is well-adapted to the environment it lives in, without resorting to simply remake a living analogue, or throw in unlikely features for the sake of esthetics. Still, the ways real life forms survive, move, process energy and reproduce do offer excellent starting points: let's see, function by function, how an imaginary organism might work.

Biomechanics[]

See main article: Speculative biomechanics

This article concerns the shape of speculative organisms, their body structure and organization, the way they mantain them and the way they move.

Bioenergetics[]

See main article: Speculative bioenergetics

This article concerns how organisms extract energy from the environment and how they store and use this energy.

Perception[]

See main article: Perception

This article concerns how organisms perceive the environment around them.

Offense and defense[]

See main article: Offense and defense

This article concerns how organisms can attack and kill other organisms or prevent being attacked and killed by them.

Reproduction[]

See main article: Reproduction

This article concerns the means by which organisms produce copies of themselves, perpetuating their genes.

Behaviour[]

See main article: Behaviour

Also see: Intelligence

This article concerns how organisms behave, react to the environment or work together to survive.

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