Xenomorph Life Cycle

chli
MemberChestbursterJanuary 18, 2017The xenomorph seems to propagate asexually (plant propagation) which would mean that every xenomorph is identical? Unless they change (get traits) depending on the host (e.g. humans)? If we take the film Aliens, all the xenomorphs would be identical since they all have sprung from the human settlers on LV-426? But if the host was an engineer?
The Life cycle seems to involve a living host (e.g. a human) which slowly disintegrates and changes into an egg (in which a face hugger will develope). The Face hugger seeks a new host and plants an embryo in the stomach (through a tube inserted in the victim's throat). The embryo will grow (feeding on the host) and eventually chew itself out and grow into a new xenomorph and the cycle will start all over again.
In The Thing, the alien could mimic its host’s individual traits and become identical with it which is something that the xenomorph apparently does not? But if the host is a different species (an ox in Alien 3) it will become somewhat different?
I wonder what would happen if you “fed” a xenomorph with the mutagen (the black goo)? What would it evolve into?