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[Esthlos]

The primal need to procreate is for the survivability of a species and its successive generation. Its not a 'trait' manifested from evolutionary process like eye color, skin tone and even the increased risk of gaining certain diseases. X-Men is a fictional appropriation of the possibility of inherent genetic defects causing fantastical powers which is appropriated in human biotics in ME which in long term the trait can be hereditary like a mage in Dragon Age.

Again: evolution cares about the offspring only, and not about cool powers.
In your last post you wrote that you already knew this, yet you seem to keep thinking believable that cool powers not affecting the chance of generating offspring (or, in some cases, even reducing it) could evolve and be kept in the evolutionary process.
Is there a reason or an explanation for this contradiction?
 

People can still create children through various intervention. Even now its possible for a child to inherit traits and genetic information from multiple parents through IVF.

IVF doesn't work like this. At all.
Are you sure that you do have a degree in biomedical science?
 

Miranda was proof that you can create a child with biotic traits. Even if biotics does have fertility problems, the ME verse science was able to circumvent that.

Irrelevant: the point in discussion was a biotic's ability to generate offspring by physiological means, not the possibility to engineer a biotic.
 

Inbreeding is one of humanity first experiment in genetic modification. Much like the effects of human foraging in the evolution of modern crops, its effects is more prominent in the predisposition of certain genetic diseases in the gene pool. Just because its not created in a sterile lab, it doesn't mean its not science.

It is science, and nobody wrote otherwise.
Yet it is not "man-made" in the sense you used the term in in your original post; I would apreciate it if you tried to avoid using equivocations as arguments.
 

And you still need 23 paired chromosomes to create a living being but of course there's special cases with polysomy. One single healthy X chromosome does not have enough DNA to create anything.

Which is why I wrote "having healthy eggs to give that X to in that situation is another matter though, that's true"...
 

Miranda condition isn't due to a hormonal defect. What I'm saying is that her DNA was artificially constructed to include various traits from various people based around her father's genome. This is like having multiple pieces of different puzzles being cut and paste together to form a living person based around the genetic struction of another person... and the opposite sex too. Miranda is a miracle of science much like Shepard's reconstruction process but in Miranda's case, her genetic structure was in fact very unstable. I reasoned it that she could have problems with formation of fertile ovum and reproductive organs is very sensitive to a lot of sudden changes particularly in the genetic structure of the female. This irregularity could increase a person of having other health problems. Although, she maintained that she is healthy, but from the sound of her doctor, she could develop a condition called benign epithelial neoplastic cysts which do occur among healthy females. From the sound of it, it affected her ability to conceive a child and her only option was adoption. And among her wishes for her twin was for her to have a family which probably means, the reason why her father created Oriana was because he found out about Miranda's infertility. Since there's no actual explanation for this, we could assume a lot of probable scenarios.

Maybe I misunderstood what you just wrote, but it looks like you disproved your own thesis: if Miranda has a genetic twin which is fertile, then her infertility is not due to a DNA that is too unstable due to it being engineered.

(Miranda refers to Oriana calling her her "twin", if I recall correctly; if their DNA was different, then Miranda would have used the word "sister" instead, which would be more appropriate - and Miranda is competent enough to know the difference)