A chimera was an individual whose body contained two or more types of cells and genes.
In immunology, it referred to an organism in which two or more cell lines with different chromosomal compositions coexisted.
They tolerated one another without rejection, existing in a state of chimerism.
Sometimes, it could also refer to a biological organism in which the same organ displayed different traits. In layman's terms, it meant a hermaphrodite.
People who developed this condition were often accompanied by symptoms of extremely abundant energy, and sometimes also exhibited the confusion associated with multiple personalities.
In short, a chimera was an individual containing multiple genes that neither rejected nor conflicted with one another.
As for whether the confusion caused by multiple personalities was related to the chimera condition, the theory was still relatively unconvincing.
That was Maud's understanding of chimeras.
However, this knowledge did not necessarily apply to the One Piece World. As Luo had said, there had not been many recorded examples of chimeras throughout medical history—few enough to count on one hand.
In Hunter's World, however, the existence and phenomenon of chimeras were relatively well known.
Among the countless species of living creatures, there was even a creature called a chimera ant. It could absorb the genetic factors of its prey by eating them, then pass the prey's biological traits down to its offspring.
It was practically a biological manufacturing factory in the truest sense...
In a certain sense, this ability was quite similar to the Munch-Munch Fruit in the One Piece World. Both involved eating things and then combining different organisms into a single individual.
The difference was that chimera ants passed the factors of what they ate down to their offspring, while the Munch-Munch Fruit's ability was more akin to a form of modification.
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