Synthetic

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From American Heritage Dictionary

synthetic -- also synthetical adj. 1. Pertaining to, involving, or of

the nature of a synthesis. 2. Chem. Produced by synthesis, esp. not

of natural origin; manmade. 3. Not genuine; artificial; devised. 4.

Ling. Denoting a language such as Latin or Russian that uses

inflectional affixes to express syntactic relationships. --n

synthetic. A synthetic chemical compound or material. [Gk.

sunthetikos, component <suntithenai, to put together. --see

SYNTHESIS.] --synthetically adv.

It is my opinion that the argument that keeps coming up is that of

differing backgrounds...the 'biologists' and 'scientists' (see

Synthetic Biology http://syntheticbiology.org/ ), who are using

definitions 1 and 2, vs. the average 'lay-person' who is coming to

this board for usable information, who is using definition 3.