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Originally Posted by RyanW
Velcro was originally inspired by the way a bur gets caught in hair. Bionics is the field of engineering based on biological systems.
The idea that it is primarily about prosthetics is incorrect, but bionic prosthetics are a thing: duplicating the function of the body parts they replace as closely as possible.
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That really really really stretches what bionics means to the person on the street which is what I believe matters for this thread.
Same goes for all the other examples in the list.
If you asked such a person to name the method of artificial embryo twinning, they would not call it cloning regardless of how it technically is. They would only count cloning of adult organisms like Dolly as real cloning.