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Not sure of this has been said, but Harbinger says something about their tendency to mate w/ other species expresses weakness. or something
I brought it up myself and its complete bolony.
Asari can reproduce with any race, so even if all but one Asari was wiped out in time the Asari race could spring back.
Asari mates with a Turian and has three kids, those three mate with different species and each have three more kids and so on and so on. How on earth does that make them weak? Remember also that there's nothing stopping Asari-Asari pairings. Ardat Yakshi are extremely rare and we know that the Asari can mate with each other or the race would have been extinct long before they discovered other species.
I believe its best for the Asari to mate with their own species. Becaus the Asari only share the basic gens with other species.. Their is a higher chance for genetic diversity through asari-exclusive pairings or gene therapy. So it seems that asari-alien pairings will lead to the daughter being a clone of her mother
All the pureblood hate is just elitism propaganda spewed by the self-hating Asari who've made an inferior mating choice.
Even Asari doctors say nothing is gained genetically from asari-alien pairings
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Quite the oposite actually, Asari-Asari pairings run a very small risk of producing an Ardat Yakshi, who is sterile remember. Asari-Alien pairings run zero risk of this happening. As for being clones of their mothers, thats just not the way its described in game. The Asari 'mother' can rearrange the dna somehow, don't ask me how but there you go.
This is something that is -believed-, not nessecarily something that is true. Given how rare the Ardat Yakshi are, and since there doesn't seem to be any kind of scientific awareness of what causes them (other than it is due to a genetic defect of some sort in the mother, hence Samara can go three for three with them) Actualy, that's a really -strong- case for the species of the "father" to have nothing to do with the ardat yakshi problem. Unless the problem is that -Samara- is a "pureblood", but again, I'd point to the lack of an adequate sample size to make any conclusions.
Actually, the whole concept behind the whole "purebloods lead to ardat yakshi" doesn't make much sense anyway. For most of their evolutionary history, the Asari would have had noone -but- other Asari to breed with. In fact, given that the mother takes no biological information from the father, it's -very- likely that there is no difference between an alien-fathered child and a "pureblood". The whole thing rings of superstition and miseducation, honestly.
It could be that, in the past, Ardat Yakshi were more common, like 1/10,000 rather than 1 in several billion.
Here is how it could work: the Asari contain a lot of genes, more than are expressed in them... they basically carry a bunch of alternate gene sets, related to previous ancestors, which acts as "junk" DNA until it's time for them to reproduce.
There's one really bad Recessive gene, let's call it AY. So an Asari's genome could look like this:
OO OO
OT OT
OT OT
AY OT
OT TO
When the Asari mate with another species, the other species chooses which of the multitude of DNA the Asari carries is treated as "junk" and which is treated as "Expressed" DNA. The AY gene will only be chosen as an Expressed Gene if the other carrier has an AY gene. No race other than the Asari have that gene, so only mating with other Asari (and only with other Asari who are also carriers) produces the chance of an Ardat Yakshi.
This could be why purebloods are views as unpopular - when an alien is used to randomize expression, you'll get a better randomization. When another asari is used, genes currently expressed by both parents are more likely to be chosen. This means you're more likely to get double recessives, though it's not guaranteed. It's like some genetic disorders in humans - they are more likely to occur if members of a genetic group that has that particular recessive interbreed, rather than marrying outside their genetic group.
It could be that, in a population where Asari breed only with each other, AY and other genetic disorders are more common. It's similar to the proscription against marrying your second cousin - in reality, marrying your second cousin produces very little increased likelihood of genetic defect. It's marrying cousins over dozens and dozens of generations, like in Medieval Europe, that causes problems.
So the Asari may have noticed that AY became less common when they started using other species to breed, and so it quickly became taboo to mate with the same species - even if the risk isn't any higher on average. This is similar to the taboo against marrying cousins on earth, no matter how distant they are. Many very distant cousins (fourth cousins, third cousins twice removed, that kind of things) are actually no more likely to be genetically similar to you than a random stranger, but there's still a taboo against dating them. (There's a hilarious 30 Rock episode about this.) In reality, pureblood breeding is only dangerous for the tiny minority who have the AY gene (or other rare, recessive disorder genes), but since breeding with a non-Asari means there's no risk at all, the prejudice continues.
Modifié par CulturalGeekGirl, 09 avril 2011 - 04:45 .
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