(09-22-2013, 05:06 AM)Mister_X Wrote: Well simply put, a child gets 1/4 of chromosomes from each parent...
1/2, because 23 is just half as much as 46.
(09-22-2013, 06:20 AM)JayDee Wrote: I dont think that OC and regular human can have child anyway. OCs DNA is changed, so they just may never have kids from outside.
That makes them Outcasts. That and the fact that they cant survive far from home for too long.
Horses and donkeys are different species, yet we got moles. Lions and tigers are different species, yet we get ligers. I don't see why shouldn't we have a crossbreed of Maltese and normal human.
But then again, what bloogaL said. If Cardi is dominant and agressive enough to mutate a human DURING his lifetime, it will be dominant enough to grant these genes to the child. The child of a Maltese will 100% be Maltese, regardless of the other parent.
I would've expect that with some DNA therapies beforehand, could develop in womb of non-cardamine addicted mother. I would have also expect such a person later in the life to more easily accept cardamine and mutating much faster than "clean" person. Look: Cryer has developed Synthethic Cardamine, who knows what else they are hiding in the pocket.
Depending upon what DNA changes are induced then fertile offspring are not precluded.
If linked to sex chromosomes then it would depend upon maternal or paternal.
Would depend on if the alteration is genetic but possibly the mitochondrial DNA.
Would depend on it is actually genetic is the narrow traditional sense or whether epigenetic.
etc. etc. etc.
This is a game you can do what you please stop looking for reality.
If you read what Cardamine is it does not really hold up with loose usage of biological ideas.
I'd consider that Cardimine is a rather aggressive genes transformer. However, there is always the chance of having a "healthy" child, largely depending on which genes Cardimine alters, if lets say, it alters only 30% of the genes, and the baby only gets genes that aren't infected by the change it could matter.
There are other interesting options - for example: What if cardimine simply adds a couple of chromosomes? Perhaps they carry biological data that is the cause of both the dependency and the alternation.
It's more about my grasp of English language cuz genetics are a major part of my studies but nevermind, Hidamari why on Earth would you even ponder your head over this? :-P
Hidamari
Imagine it as a slight genetic change in the coding of a cell membrane receptor that results in the need to use cardamine.
You baby just happens to have the wild type human receptor therefore doesn't need cardi.
Very simplified but totally within the parameters of what biologists work in.
(Might be a useful idea to wonder why Cobras do not poison theme selves if they bite their tongue )
[Just in case you look, the www is full of crap, the nearest easy digestible article giving an inkling into the cobra venom is http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articl...-copy-prey, not ideal but accessible and allows the analogy I was making to be seen.]
Tunicle made a good analogy there, but I would say that this is rather hard to explain with our conventional knowledge of biology and genetics simply cuz something like this has never been encountered by humanity before ( something that can change DNA and genetic code of a fully grown human)...
EDIT: It is like trying to have a physicist or astronomer explain that planetary cluster in Gallia....
(09-22-2013, 01:17 PM)Mister_X Wrote: Tunicle made a good analogy there, but I would say that this is rather hard to explain with our conventional knowledge of biology and genetics simply cuz something like this has never been encountered by humanity before ( something that can change DNA and genetic code of a fully grown human)...
EDIT: It is like trying to have a physicist or astronomer explain that planetary cluster in Gallia....
Radiation?
Also, Thyr'zul is studying Bio-chimestry if I am not mistaken, so he's quiet good with all that biology stuff.
Anyway, given the fact that Cardimine doesn't just make a dependency it becomes part of the DNA (literally, per the rumors strands of the orange grass' DNA are found anywhere on Malta, inside its inhabitants too.
So, saying it's just the receptors being like that would be quiet wrong IMO. Anyway, there should be some degree of dependency on Cardimine seeing how aggressive DNA manipulator it is.