Laguz Genetics

[rdmajere]

A note on real life: Follow protocols. They'll make your life a lot easier. >_>

Anyways, onto Fire Emblem. Kender. This is for you.

Comments

[socraticwaffles]

Hahaha! I do indeed appreciate this, although it also makes you eligible for the Most Ridiculous Person I've Ever Known Award. xD

Isn't it also possible that laguz would have a different NUMBER of chromosomes than humans? So one of those could carry the genes for whether or not a child would end up being a raven or a heron? So that, unlike humans who only combine the X and Y sex chromosomes, the laguz could perhaps simultaneously combine a set of chromosomes that would determine race of bird? (Like...instead of being XY male, it could be XYAA heron male or XYAB raven male or XXAA heron female...and etc.)

You're the biology major, though. I just enjoy speculations of the sci-fi variety xD.

[rdmajere]

Occam's Razor tell us otherwise - a biological organism will ALWAYS, without exception, go for the simplest method to get the thing done. Your way work, but given that we don't know if Tellius have any other bird laguz species other than the three in game, there's no way to tell either way.

...See my next post for further detail.

[xangetsuken]

You tread on dangerous ground when you discuss the genetics of cross-species FE pairings!

[rdmajere]

Technically, still same species. Otherwise, there wouldn't be fertile offspring.

Beorc and Laguz seem to count as one such grouping, which, to me, means that they're fundamentally alike.