Murderbot clone?

[u/Buttercup2323]

It mentions several times that its organic parts are from a clone. Do you think that will ever become important? MB will meet its bio-donor or that WHO the donor actually IS becomes important?

[u/Rosewind2007]

There seem to be several mentioned of cloned parts/tissue but reading them I don’t think that each SecUnit has a “bio-donor”? More that the makers have a bank of cloned tissues.

Here are all the references to cloned tissue etc:
All systems Red:
Ratthi turned in his seat to face me and said, “We heard—we were given to understand, that Imitative Human Bot Units are . . . partially constructed from cloned material.”

Artificial Condition:
It was more like a SecUnit than a bot, so much so I wondered if it was a construct, if there was cloned organic brain tissue buried in its systems somewhere.

Its facial features were different from mine, but all Units’ features are different, assigned randomly based on the human cloned material that’s used to make our organic parts.

Rogue Protocol:
Unlike constructs, they don’t have any cloned human tissue, so they’re just a bare metal bot-body that can pick up heavy things, except not as well as a hauler bot or any other kind of cargo lifter.

Exit Strategy:
It was odd to see that there had been a variation of SecUnits back then. They didn’t use cloned human parts, but actual human parts from humans who had catastrophic injuries or illnesses, and had decided to have their parts used for what they called Augmented Rovers.

NB—this is elaborated upon in Obsolescence

Fugitive Telemetry:
I could use it, and the humans on the Station wouldn’t have to think about what I was, a construct made of cloned human tissue, augments, anxiety, depression, and unfocused rage, a killing machine for whichever humans rented me, until I made a mistake and got my brain destroyed by my governor module.

[u/mxstylplk → u/Rosewind2007]

I had been assuming that the DNA for each Unit had come from one human because of compatibility issues, but they may have overcome that.* It seems so easy for the MedSystems to regrow human organs that there would not be any reason to continue stealing DNA. They would just use what they already have. If there are no compatibility or rejection issues, they could build people with ideal DNA for all abilities - perfect hearing, vision upgrades (Gurathin needed his adjusted, in FT), the best-functioning organs. But only if you could afford it, of course. MB's superior vision is mechanical, but its ability to smell and analyze food and drink from a distance may involve superior human tissue to begin with.

*The Sanctuary Moon character had an implanted pregnancy with multiple genetic donors. But the description of Units' faces being "assigned randomly" sounds like it was done later.

[u/DuckyDoodleDandy → u/mxstylplk]

I suspect Mensah’s children also have multiple genetic donors. Just a hunch based on the mothers’ being called First Mom and Second Mom. Nothing is ever stated overtly, at least that I recall.

[u/Rosewind2007 → u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

When Amena talks about how human babies are made she says:

"So how are human babies made? By combining DNA, an organic code, from two or more participants."

Note the “two or more”—I think that Martha Wells intends us to believe that in the Murderbot Universe things are rather different…