by Snorb » Wed Feb 13, '08, 5:35 am
Well, the way Kaloes explained the whole donor/cloning thing to me, I think the hospital technicians used only half of Rolf's DNA, only extracting 23 of his chromosomes (humans have 46, and PSII refers to Palmans as humans, so I guess we're not all that dissimilar). This RNA (the half set of chromosomes present in sperm/ova) was implanted in several of Cody's sperm (replacing his own RNA), then these sperm were used to conceive Leon in vitro, then the embryo was implanted into Lindsey (so, Lindsey Ashleigh's still Leon's mother, but Mister Spoiler is technically Leon's father.)
Actually not too dissimilar to something we have on good ol' backwards 21st century Earth, called DNA polymerase transfer, I believe. Lemme go check wikipedia...
Okay, I'm back, and yes, I really did check Wikipedia. Couldn't find exactly what I wanted, but did find something called triparental mating: Whitebox is the helper strain (he provides the genetics), Cody's the donor strain (he provides the sperm), and Lindsey's the recipent strain (self-explanatory). Whoo science?!
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