Lifeform
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- "I just love scanning for lifeforms. Lifeforms... you tiny little lifeforms... you precious little lifeforms... where are you?"
- "Our mission as Starfleet officers is to seek out new lifeforms so we can learn about one another."
- - Miles O'Brien (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")
A lifeform is simply any living entity or organism. The study of lifeforms is known as biology, and, when dealing with alien lifeforms, can be further sub-categorized into xenobiology and xenology.
Starship sensors and tricorders are primary instruments used in detecting or locating lifeforms. This can be determined by identifying or localizing blood type, heart rate or metabolic setup.
There are incredible similarities between the lifeforms on different worlds in the Star Trek universe. A probable explanation for this may be the existence of the ancient humanoids DNA during evolution.
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[edit] Starfleet lifeform classes and types
The class-5 type lifeform may refer to humanoids.
- Order 480-G anthropoids (Taurus II natives)
[edit] Kingdoms
[edit] Other types of life
- Artificial
- Biomimetic lifeform
- Cybernetic
- Silicon-based
- Solanogen-based
- Spaceborne
- Viral
- Xenon-based
- Sporocystian
