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 Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:06 am
So, while walking to work, I was thinking about the particularly glaring scientific inaccuracy (I have a bachelor's degree in plant biology and I'm going to get my Ph.D soon... so scientific inaccuracies bug the s**t out of me) of this whole chromosomal number thing... supposedly vamps have more chromosomes than humans, so, when humans and vamps mate, they have an intermediate number of chromosomes, right?
Wrong.
When two things that have an incompatible number of chromosomes "mate" the fetus doesn't form, because the cells can't divide. The cells kill themselves.
So, I was thinking. In the Stephenie Meyer universe, this could mean one of two things: ANYTHING can mate with ANYTHING else (which hasn't happened, or else we'd have some crazy s**t running around) or, this problem could be solved by another explanation.
When cells that have divided incorrectly (wrong number of parts, chromosomes, etc) and don't kill themselves, problems occur. The common name for this is cancer.
Renesmee is a cancer.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:37 am
We all knew that already-
Tresemme- oh i'm sorry (NOT)- RESEMME- Is the cancer that is killing Literature.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:03 pm
Hooray. It's technically not old news, as we've made Loch Ness Monster jokes and such, but we don't really have cancer/tumor jokes.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:32 pm
That actually makes sense.
Of course knowing SMeyer, she'll be likely to be claim that Vampires have the same number of chromosomes as humans. Though techincally, Nessie would be at least somewhat deformed from the genetic mutation of being part Sparklepire in that case.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:33 pm
Another note about vampires:
They can't reproduce. They are dead... that means, all the cells within are dead, including their sex cells. If they were to ejaculate, it would either be dust from an old peeper, or well, blood from whom they recently fed from.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:19 pm
Moonlight Penguin Another note about vampires: They can't reproduce. Actually there were stories in folklore of vampires knocking up women, but it was only one type of vampire. And your science proves point; I thought this was going to be one of those name calling topics, but it actually has thought put into it. Well done.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:26 pm
Wow, in some way SMeyer is supporting cancer. If you look at it from a very strange angle.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:41 pm
Moonlight Penguin Another note about vampires: They can't reproduce. They are dead... that means, all the cells within are dead, including their sex cells. If they were to ejaculate, it would either be dust from an old peeper, or well, blood from whom they recently fed from.  I like how Hellsing handled it though, vampires could only make more vampires with blood of the opposite sex. Though we need to figure out a way to support Dhampirs/Dunpeals... D needs love!
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:14 pm
Crystal Kyuketsuki Moonlight Penguin Another note about vampires: They can't reproduce. Actually there were stories in folklore of vampires knocking up women, but it was only one type of vampire. And your science proves point; I thought this was going to be one of those name calling topics, but it actually has thought put into it. Well done. Haha, thanks. Result of me not wanting to stare at pages and pages of statistics! My academic adviser would be proud.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:40 pm
With an imbalance of chromosomes in a human fetus, it develops Down's Syndrome.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:44 pm
Jerba With an imbalance of chromosomes in a human fetus, it develops Down's Syndrome. Almost, but not quite. Human cells have 23 chromosomes, and two copies of each chromosome. Down's Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21, is three copies of chromosome number 23. There are other diseases associated with the incorrect numbers of copies of chromosomes, but in most cases the mother aborts the fetus if there are too many problems.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:54 pm
Marlyna Jerba With an imbalance of chromosomes in a human fetus, it develops Down's Syndrome. Almost, but not quite. Human cells have 23 chromosomes, and two copies of each chromosome. Down's Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21, is three copies of chromosome number 23. There are other diseases associated with the incorrect numbers of copies of chromosomes, but in most cases the mother aborts the fetus if there are too many problems. Yeah... that's what I said. ninja
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:08 pm
Moonlight Penguin Another note about vampires: They can't reproduce. They are dead... that means, all the cells within are dead, including their sex cells. If they were to ejaculate, it would either be dust from an old peeper, or well, blood from whom they recently fed from. My point exactly. Any form of undead, since their reproductive functions are no longer working, cannot reproduce, even if they tried cloning.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:18 pm
I've also heard stories as if they used magic of some sorts ( didn't get the details) they could too. Other than that, virtually impossible.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:39 pm
Congratulations, SMeyer! You have effectively written about the Vampire Tumor-Baby from Hell!
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