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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #90 on: October 28, 2009, 06:20:57 PM »
well then you only have 2 andalites to work with... you're not gonna get much variation...
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #91 on: October 28, 2009, 06:40:10 PM »
They had a whole ship of them in book #18.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #92 on: October 28, 2009, 07:34:38 PM »
Oh yeah. I forgot the DNA disease. But would that really matter in the short term? In that book, he was still quite potent. Though he was near sighted, the introduction of new DNA may have averted this. During a two hour time persiod, ther effects shouldn't be too bad. Just don't go nothlit, or the disease will take its toll.

Just try to grab Gafinilan's tail. Mertyl's arms because five beefy armed Andalites will make the Yeerks (or at least V3) suspicious. Mertyl or Ax's eyes, or mix both. And mix in all three fur/hair colorations.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #93 on: October 28, 2009, 08:14:20 PM »
Quote from: Spartan 281 (Parker) on October 28, 2009, 06:40:10 PM
They had a whole ship of them in book #18.
but would any of them actually give the animorphs permission to morph them?

I wonder if you can even control how the DNA mixes, or if the maneuver automatically mixes the DNA itself. Ax's human body was a balance of the 4, so I'm guessing he couldn't control what parts of the 4 his human body had (probably a good thing).
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #94 on: October 28, 2009, 08:18:23 PM »
Quote from: morfowt on October 28, 2009, 06:20:57 PM
well then you only have 2 andalites to work with... you're not gonna get much variation...

sure it would, they would all just  be "siblings"
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #95 on: October 28, 2009, 09:06:27 PM »
not if what i just realized is true, that you can't control the result of a frolis maneuver. if the frolis maneuver just balances all the traits of the multiple morphs, you can only create one unique morph from combining the DNA of two people.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #96 on: October 28, 2009, 09:22:10 PM »
what do you mean "balances the traits"? How do you balance blue eyes and brown eyes? Or whether you have dimples or not? OR GENDER? (Sorry I totally ETA'd that but I need to get my point across) Some traits are simple "yes" and "no," some traits are averages. Just like when a man and a woman love each other very very much and can make a pretty nearly infinite amount of genetically unique children.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #97 on: October 28, 2009, 09:31:09 PM »
I'm not sure. It's complicated.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #98 on: October 28, 2009, 09:32:07 PM »
easy, the eyes are a blend of blue and brown, just like ax's hair and skin was a blending of their colors.
as for dimples, a few dimples here and there, just like ax's hair had a "little of cassie's curl".

the frolis maneuver isn't the same as producing offspring though. nature selects one gene or another. the frolis maneuver doesn't select one gene or another though. or at least, ax's wasn't one gene or another.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #99 on: October 28, 2009, 10:36:01 PM »
morf that is just not at all how genetics works
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #100 on: October 28, 2009, 10:54:39 PM »
We're talking about a whole different universe here, KA's universe. In her world, it could work that way.

And, really, even we don't know how genetics work.
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #101 on: October 28, 2009, 11:02:51 PM »
lol what

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics

you guys do read stuff besides Animorphs, right?
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #102 on: October 28, 2009, 11:08:57 PM »
Quote from: anijen21 on October 28, 2009, 12:41:31 PM
weren't you referring back to the issue with howler collective memories here?

Because even if they can't access memories through DNA, I still think your qualms with #26 are valid. Once Jake morphed to Howler, he should have perfect access to the collective memories, ie, he is NOT the holder of those memories, he is only the ACCESSOR, which the DNA should have given him the ability to do.

So yes, I was coming down, rather hard, on your side.

Thanks, anijen, for backin me up... :)
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #103 on: October 28, 2009, 11:13:46 PM »
What do you mean other things? I know not of these other things of which you speak? :P
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Re: Battle morphs.
« Reply #104 on: October 28, 2009, 11:15:11 PM »
I was pretty sure Animorphs was the only thing to read out there...  ::)
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