eobiont

Noun

 * 1) a hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical precursor to a living organism
 * 2) an artificially created creature; a Frankenstein's monster

Quotations

 * 1993, Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler, Laws of the Game
 * Only when “eobionts”—primordial organisms equipped with a primitive metabolism—began to multiply efficiently was this material used up.
 * 2003, Michael Cronin, Translation and Globalization
 * In the Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch’s The Procedure, the protagonist Victor Werker is the creator of artificial life in the form of the Eobiont (Mulisch 2001).