Nautica773 wrote...
Draconis6666 wrote...
Because they dont make their genetic code "different" as much as they add on to what is already there that doesnt alter the underlying genetic code of what it is to be an asari which is apparently not very diverse from what we are told. If you take two Asari from the same mother with a different father the genetic difference is probably very small while two human children born from the same mother with different father's can be very very different at a genetic level
I don't think it's as different as you think it is. Nor do genetics code for what you think they do. You realize, on a genetic level, humans and chimpanzees have almost 98% identical DNA, right? Furthermore, most of the genetic code is what we deem 'junk DNA'. It's superfluous coding that doesn't really produce anything of meaning. The rest? Mostly instructions that create the proteins, amino acids and other building blocks of our bodies.
You've interpreted 'junk DNA' slightly wrongly IMO, or whoever taught you has. Junk DNA is dubbed "Junk" not because it produces nothing meaningful but because modern science doesn't
know what it does. There's a big difference between ignorance of something and it being useless. It's possible it's only there for extra genetic 'capacity' in the case of evolution but most of it is simply locked away right now. Some people think it's useless, some people think it's a relic of past evolution and some people think it's our damn soul - either way we have no idea what it is at the moment.
Humanity's "great" genetic diversity would be less than 1% of their entire genetic code.
Which is 30 million different possible combinations of gene pairings.... Percentages are only a useful way of describing size from a relative point of view...using them in this case is like saying the Earth is small because it amounts to less than 1% of the matter in the Universe.
The_mango55 wrote...
They don't actually do this.
They use another race's geneic code to randomize their own genetics. They also may gain some personality traits from the father.
Isn't that what reproduction is? When a women gets pregnant, the fetus isn't going to have some new nucleobase added to its chromosomes. What it inherits from its mother and father is just the different sequencing of the different nucleobases. In theory, if a woman were capable of reorganizing these bases herself, she wouldn't need a male to procreate and still produce an individual with a different genetic makeup.
Yes and no.... Reproduction itself is a randomization of parent DNA, this is true, but if the process of procreation were pure randomization and nothing more than no race or species would evolve or 'improve' over time but simply remain static variants. Besides, with Asari it seems that comparatively their child receives a low array of DNA randomization which would result in much slower evolution.
We don't know completely what causes the ability for beings to 'improve' through evolution, nor why animals instinctively know where to go and what to do, but a popular theory is that memory is encoded into DNA meaning your memories before producing a child will be passed on to your child's subconscious memory banks and therefore contribute an ever increasing improvement to the species.
Even if this particular means of improvement isn't true it still remains that there is a little more than pure randomization involved in reproduction to contribute to evolution, and with Asari it seems this 'improvement' is comparatively less than humans.
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That being said, it only takes 1 ship and a rag tag team of criminals and specialists to save them. So I suppose it evens out.
And I really hate the humans in mass effect, it's going to be fun to see how bad they get in 3.
