How do you classify the "Perfect Organism"?

Calvin from LIFE is REAL close to 'Perfect Organism' status.

Didn't they use the cancer angle in Aliens: Colonial Marines (shudder), in which they also inferred that the Chestburster cannot be removed as it would kill the host indirectly. While cancer is undoubtedly deadly it is only a competitor in the eyes of a virus - compare a cancer cell to a viral particle.

As for calling it the perfect organism, wouldn't that depend upon its purpose, it's role in an ecosystem. The cow is not the perfect organism, but it is the perfect livestock organism giving us leather, beef and milk (and by extension butter and cheese). Most would agree the Xenomorph is a biological weapon, in which respect it is the perfect "weapon" organism.

Lack of morals, no remorse, exoskeleton, parasitical - interesting many commonly use these words but avoid the classification that fits most, if not all of the Xenomorphs traits - insects; the second most dominant lifeform on our planet, and it was an insect, the parasitic wasp, that served as inspiration for the Xenomorph.

But for me personally, how would I classify the Xenomorph; with one word - human. As Agent Smith stated in The Matrix the human race procreates and affects its ecosystem in a similar fashion to that of a virus. But that aside, my suspicion is that if the crew of the USCSS Covenant ran the same test on a Xenomorph that Shaw ran on the decapitated Engineers head, I believe the results would be identical when tested against our own DNA, but we'll have to wait and see if my belief is right on that one...

The Alien, going strictly from ALIEN itself, including the eggmorphing,pretty much defies Terrestrial classification. End of the movie it got blown out of a plasma drive, and was still bodily intact, possibly survived. Though canonically, according to an Interview with R. Scott it was at the end of it's life anyways, it had originally nested in the shuttle to die.
Granted, the Alien's only real weakness is needing a host to reproduce. BUT as it's a weapon, that's not a weakness, merely an aspect of it's Purpose.
Forget the Cameron-Idiocy of 'Lets make Alien into space ants!' as that's too simplistic, and the Queen is a massive weakness.
Drop 1 Egg into a city, and you have a nightmare exploding at a Geometric-squared rate. 1 Alien takes and converts say, 4 people into eggs, along with 4 captured hosts, before end of lifecycle. Those 4 newly birthed chestbursters then proceed to grow and do the same, but there's no central hive, no centralized reproduction center to kill. They'd all most likely go off and establish seperate nests. and let's say each of those takes 4 people for eggs, and 4 more as hosts, etc, etc.
You have something that is as Perfect as an organism can be structurally, capable of largely independent reproduction, as hostile and aggressive as it is structurally perfect, able to exist and operate in a wide range of conditions, including vacuum, it's extremely cunning, stealthy, and probably high-order animal-level intelligent.
Perfect??

REALLY close.
Viruses = Not an organism.
Cancer = Not an organism.

The perfect organism? Perhaps one that remains in balance with nature yet retains sentience and the ability to creatively express itself?

in the alien universe, the perfect organism may refer to the original species that the xenomorph is derived from, or the xenomorph designed to eliminate planet and ship populations, its perfect for that purpose but its physiology would render it paralysed if one let a fire alarm off.

I'd classify the Alien in its own group of animal. It doesn't have enough in common with an insect, mammal, reptile, or anything else to be classified as one.

Seeing how the Xenomorph evolved from the Xenovirus, and gestates as a parasitic embryo, it really has no known terrestrial analog. It has the characteristics of a virus, an organism, and an animal, an amalgamation of sorts. The Xenomorph is therefor an appendage of a being that would be a combination of the Hive Intelligence David explains that originates in the motes, and the virus/accelerant. Therefore, it would be considered most closely and unprofessionally a 'placental virus organism' or 'superorganism' when functioning in its latter, "hive" state. It also, via the xenovirus, is shown to be mutable, either naturally or preemptive-induction via third party (Engineers/David).

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I don't really think there's any one objective answer. It has to be perfect at something. And, all organisms are precisely perfect at doing whatever exact thing they do...

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