A friend of mine who knows how I feel about Animorphs posted a link on my Facebook page, and I felt I had to share it with you guys because it made me feel warm inside.
Language Warning: don't click if swear words bother you.While you're right about the sarcastic font, a baby doesn't grow independently.
At least not in a mammal anyway.
And while it's really hard for me to imagine how, I'm starting to think a baby would have to be able to survive it.
Same as a yeerk does. Same as all the micro things in your GI tract must; if they didn't Animorphs have some serious toilet issues after each morph.
Course that gets me thinking about the aging process and morphing's affects. Not to mention the morphing of microflora and really it seems like non-nuclear DNA make a whole new mess of things.
But those are random thoughts for another thread I suppose
As far as babies go, I would think that it would probably get absorbed into the morph, and reappear when the morpher demorphed, the same thing that theoretically happens to Yeerks (based on controllers being able to morph creatures too small to contain a Yeerk).
And I've never thought about what happens to non-nuclear DNA during morphing before, that's an interesting thought! Perhaps, it could be that the acquiring process stores copies of any kinds of DNA it detects, nuclear or mitochondrial or otherwise. It depends on whether Andalites have anything resembling mitochondria, and therefore any reason to plan for this contingency in their techology. While it is somewhat unlikely that DNA-bearing organelles would evolve twice, Andalites do have a lot of other similarities to earth's mammals that are likewise unlikely. So it's possible, and thus they would need to program that assumption into their technology in order for morphing to work at all.
