Have been working on zero X hadn't realised how much genetics I had forgotten. Why didn't I write a fic with protein biochemistry instead, I know about protein biochemistry
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*grins* it's important these things are right, (or as right as they can be when you're talking about genetically engineering people with super powers).
You are my kind of geek! I got so cross about the mishandled genetics in the Deryni universe and the only other friend of mine at the time who had read them couldn't understand why I was so annoyed!
When I first watched Spiderman I came out of the cinema and sat with my friends and complained for about half an hour about their explanation of the genetics, the radiation story though complete crap almost made more sense. (Poor friends).
Now of course I'm trying to rationally explain the impossible myself :0) hopefully without boring the readers to tears.
Yeah, I really feel for you. But, if I don't understand the science of a fic, I go look it up. I really hate it when I find out that they've just thrown something together. And don't even get me started about movies.
I respect someone as geekie as I am. Someone who goes to the trouble to actually crack a book. You make my inner geek very happy.
*grins* I have on occasion come out of films and then complained for hours about the bad half assed handwaving 'science'. It seems horribly hypocritical not to try my best with something I'm writing. (Especially as I am in a related field).
The science won't be perfect, it doesn't matter how much you tamper with someone's genetics it won't give them the ability to change the weather or shoot lasers from their eyes, (though you could probably theoretically increase healing rates, give them wings or increase their speed and agility with enough changes). I can work with what is real though and extrapolate.
Um ... what do you know about DNA? I'm working on an idea where the DNA in an egg is replaced with the DNA from two different people. Would it combine? Would they just wind up with twins?
Every person has two copies of each of 23 chromosome (which holds the DNA). One inherited from the mother and one from the father. Now if you inserted a full set of both into one egg you would have the DNA of two people. It wouldn't separate though and you would get a foetus with double the amount of DNA in each cell - which would not survive
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Have fun with the genes!
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Now of course I'm trying to rationally explain the impossible myself :0) hopefully without boring the readers to tears.
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I respect someone as geekie as I am. Someone who goes to the trouble to actually crack a book. You make my inner geek very happy.
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The science won't be perfect, it doesn't matter how much you tamper with someone's genetics it won't give them the ability to change the weather or shoot lasers from their eyes, (though you could probably theoretically increase healing rates, give them wings or increase their speed and agility with enough changes). I can work with what is real though and extrapolate.
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