Wiktionary
a. able to generate a copy of itself
Usage examples of "self-replicating".
Soon most of the molecules were organized into molecular collectives, into self-replicating systems.
Thus, the earliest self-replicating molecules depended on the supply of abiotically produced organic compounds washed down off the land into a few favored environments, and we can imagine some primordial, microscopic Malthus concluding gloomily that life would forever be restricted to thin strips of coastal shallows and tidal pools.
Fred Saberhagen and Greg Benford have different versions, but both involve self-replicating artificial intelligences.
The original SETI broadcast strongly implied that the router is part of a network of self-replicating instantaneous communicators, spawning and spreading between the cold brown dwarf stars that litter the galaxy.
The regimen, to be marketed under the name Histamex, consists of individually engineered histamine and immune response blockers delivered through the bloodstream by millions of self-replicating nanomachines, each about one-fifth the size of a human cell.
From the way you've described their lifecycles, they sound like classic von Neumann self-replicating machines.
Self-replicating systems, organized functionally by trial and error developed subtle metabolic pathways.
The USAF subsequently reactivates two wings of refurbished B-52s and places them at the disposal of the UN standing committee on self-replicating weapons.
Normally Islamic descent runs through the father, but she picked her sect carefully and chose one that's got a progressive view of women's rights: They're sort of Islamic fundamentalist liberal constructionists, 'what would the Prophet do if he was alive today and had to worry about self-replicating chewing gum factories' and that sort of thing.