how to reset your morphing clock

[Kitulean]

That wouldn't be the first time.

[ThinkAgain]

It was a plot device, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how the cells shift around, it's the DNA that's important, and that doesn't change through metamorphosis. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that after a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, certain genetic traits are deactivated and others are expressed for the first time, while the physical chromosomes remain constant.

[Chad32]

I don't know, honestly.

[Phoenix004]

It was a plot device, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how the cells shift around, it's the DNA that's important, and that doesn't change through metamorphosis. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that after a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, certain genetic traits are deactivated and others are expressed for the first time, while the physical chromosomes remain constant.

I believe you are correct. For the purposes of the plot device however, it's possible that the change fooled the morphing technology into thinking that the butterfly was a new "morph" therefore allowing Cassie to demorph since a new morph resets the time limit.

[MoppingBear]

Wouldn't she "demorph" into a caterpillar?

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Nah, the "morph" to butterfly would just trick the morphing power into thinking she'd just morphed, allowing her to demorph to human. There's no DNA change when a caterpillar changes to a butterfly.

By the way, I'm totally BSing. I have no idea.

[Phoenix004]

It's like Doctor Who science: we know 90% of it is BS, but it's so awesome we don't really care!