<Correct. It's rather complex and would take quite a long time to properly explain.> Not to mention being against the law, though honestly he doesn't care so much about that one. Alloran can be confident about this much, he doesn't understand the technology enough for anything he says or demonstrates to make it duplicable. <The short version is that I can make a copy of another creature's DNA. That is its genetic essence, a plan that tells its body how to be formed and function. I can then trigger my body to be tucked away and replaced by a new one, formed according to that plan.>

It could have more precise terminology involved, but eh. <'Magic' is rather outside my experience.>