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#1 Suudsu2200 Jan 02, 2012 18:27:27	Alright, so this is me being stupid, I'll just preface this with that. But, basically, people have been able to grow organs using someone's DNA. Like, they've grown a functional (to some level) lung somewhere, I remember hearing about. But I was thinking, don't guys have the genetic material for both sexes? If so, doesn't that mean that, eventually if this kind of organ-growing vastly advances, that you could grow an organ from a guy that the guy... doesn't have, if you catch my meaning? Is that not the creepiest thought? Feel free to degrade me below.
#2 Escef Jan 02, 2012 19:18:32	You'd need the ability to drop the man's Y chromosome and double up on the X. The problem becomes that there are a lot of genetic disorders that are carried n the X chromosome. Such disorders (most notable male pattern baldness and hemophilia) strike men more often because they do not have a second X chromosome that might carry a "correct" gene as a backup. Doubling up on an X that carries a defect would be bad. But just for growing parts? Yeah, it's theoretically possible. It's even possible, in theory, to make a female quasi-clone of a male. Mind you, it is this middle school level understanding of genetics that stopped me from being able to watch the Saber Marionette series back in the day. The entire premise posited a society that was technologically advanced enough to use recombinant DNA to create a genetically diverse populace, but for some reason they were limited to males because...? Yeah, because the writers had no idea how genetics works.
#3 ADHadh Jan 03, 2012 17:13:01	But just for growing parts? Yeah, it's theoretically possible. It's even possible, in theory, to make a female quasi-clone of a male. Mind you, it is this middle school level understanding of genetics that stopped me from being able to watch the Saber Marionette series back in the day. The entire premise posited a society that was technologically advanced enough to use recombinant DNA to create a genetically diverse populace, but for some reason they were limited to males because...? Yeah, because the writers had no idea how genetics works. I'd say animation and character design budget had a say in that too ;) Not to mention the supposed "humor" derived from this.