.No.502.
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No. 502
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Post by .No.502. on Sept 13, 2006 17:20:26 GMT -5
I was wondering what the deal is with breeding. Here I'll refuse to and make all my chars sterile, because I was thinking how the heck would breeding be possible with mutants?
Ferius(for lack of a better example) is his own species, a unique animal. Thus he cannot interbreed. Is this fact overlooked here? I understand if you char was just tampered with, but if the structure of the DNA is changed and the char is a unique species, they can't breed. I just wanna know what the rule is, if any.
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Post by River on Sept 13, 2006 17:35:21 GMT -5
Actually Dai, changing the DNA of a creature does not automatically make it a whole new species and, even if it did, interbreeding between different species is possible. Example: lions and tigers. Both are felines and both can breed, despite being different species. So changing the DNA may change the species but it does not change the genus. River is stull a canine, despite the feline DNA, just no sub-species, if you will, that exists currently but can still be bred. Like wolves to dogs, lions to tiger, foxes to dogs, coyotes to wolves and so on and so forth...
So breeding is allowed between similar hounds but not between like a hellhorse and a hellcat or something, and only with administrative permission...
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Post by Domnopalus on Sept 13, 2006 17:43:53 GMT -5
Also, there has been the thought about the fact that adaptations aquired during a lifetime of a creature cannot be passed down to their offspring, which is indeed true in the natural world. Here however, the creatures have been GENETICALLY altered so their traits WILL be passed down, unless of course they are sterile or have simply had traits "tacked on" to them. As River said, no wacky species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring (or even offspring at all, at that) due to the number of chromosomes each "species" carries.
Obviously I don't think humans at this point have the technology to genetically splice things, though the time is coming VERY close, so we're talking about living in a world where one can splice just about anything.
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.No.502.
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Post by .No.502. on Sept 14, 2006 13:34:14 GMT -5
Okay, thanks ^^
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Post by River on Sept 14, 2006 14:40:45 GMT -5
That's what I'm here for. ^^
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Post by Sadae on Sept 14, 2006 15:42:55 GMT -5
And Dom too Riv.^^
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Post by River on Sept 14, 2006 17:11:40 GMT -5
Yes, that is also what Dom is here for... that and making the site look sexy with the horse beatie of doom, death and destruction. X3
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Post by Sadae on Sept 14, 2006 17:13:48 GMT -5
Yes.^^
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