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[General sci fi] Things like Xenomorphs or Cell are said to be perfect, in a biological sense. What would a structurally/biologically perfect creature actually look/behave/act like, and what sort of traits would it have?

Title. A lot of sci-fi claims to have a "perfect lifeform" in it, but what would a perfect lifeform actually look like? How would it be structured? What biological abilities would it have? How would it act and behave?

I get that "perfect" is subjective, so I'll leave the exact definition up to you, but I think ou get the general idea behind the "perfect lifeform" concept and question.
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Perfect isn't really subjective, it's just highly variable based on the function that they need to perform. Every species alive can be said to be "perfect" for their existence in their biological niche. The Woodpecker is perfect for getting grubs out of trees in its habitat with its prey with its predators with its reproductive method with its...

However, we look a lot more for versatility. Can it survive and thrive when those things are not there. With that, the perfect creature are the Star-Children from 2001: a Space Odysee. This is a species that rejected all the imperfections of biology and moved on to pure electromagnetism. They possess near infinite ability. We saw them with a flick of their physical manifestations, the monoliths, turn Jupiter into a star just to cradle the infant life on one of its moons. They gave us something many currently attribute to a god, the power to reason, the knowledge of good and evil. They did it by just dropping one of their monoliths nearby. They are the closest thing to perfection that can still be called a creature and not a God.