I've noticed a lot of people take exception to the term 'clone' to describe what happened to Cloud and the villagers of Neibelheim, since cloning implies an exact duplicate of the original, down to the genes (barring minor mutations).

If what really happened to them was the introduction of Jenova cells to somehow mix or combine with their cells, then there should be a better term for the process. I've thought of two, from my background in biology:

1) Xenografting is introducing tissue from a different species (like say a baboon heart into a human body). I like this term and I think it fits if we assume the Jenova cells are separate from the host cells.

2) Chimeras (or hybridomas) are when cells of two different species are combined into single cells, incorperating the genetic information of both. This term would apply if Jenova cells physically merged with host cells.

What do you think?