Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
Valles has it right -- as long as you have one sample and a proper lab, there is no such thing as a scarcity of samples when it comes to DNA. Doug was going
to be more of an emergency backup and an "oh, we just thought of something, let's go check it out" resource.
That may be true for ordinarly DNA, but metagene DNA may be another thing entirely (and Doug's DNA in particular may be difficult to work with if his
chaos field operates on a cellular level).
I enjoyed the recent bit over at Marvel comics where it was revealed that, while cloning human beings is easy, cloning superhumans ALWAYS seems to have
problems.
This is why the Nazi scientist working for The Initiative was thrilled when he discovered that one of the project's deceased
'superhuman' operatives was in fact a normal human who had merely been raised under a medically advanced course of diet and exercise. He could be
cloned without difficulty and all of his clones would have his ubermensch physique.
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