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This paper details and expands the work on Embryonics, a recently proposed fault-tolerant cellular architecture with reconfiguration properties inspired by the ontogenetic development of multicellular systems. The design of a selector-based embryonic cell, its applications and the reliability models associated to different embryonic reconfiguration strategies are presented. It is noted that embryonic distributed systems possess, in the majority of cases, better reliability characteristics than equivalent centralised systems.