I regret that I don't quite follow the described Asgard degeneration over repeated cloning. Genetic hazards over asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction are similar, in terms of accumulated damage to the DNA; accumulated changes to DNA is how evolution happens, plus natural selection to weed out the unfit mutations; that is why I am a man and not a labyrinthodont amphibian or a crossopterygian fish.
The often-quoted risk from cloning is telomeres getting shorter, but surely ones as skilled as the Asgard know how to re-lengthen telomeres during cloning, and how to check DNA (chromosomal, mitochrondrial, etc), and any replicating RNA that they have, for copying errors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
I read a Stargate fan-fiction story whose author rejected the canon Asgard "geno-suicide" and described the Asgard as still alive and well after the end of all the canon serieses and movies and after all the canon enemies had been defeated and put an end to.
The often-quoted risk from cloning is telomeres getting shorter, but surely ones as skilled as the Asgard know how to re-lengthen telomeres during cloning, and how to check DNA (chromosomal, mitochrondrial, etc), and any replicating RNA that they have, for copying errors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
I read a Stargate fan-fiction story whose author rejected the canon Asgard "geno-suicide" and described the Asgard as still alive and well after the end of all the canon serieses and movies and after all the canon enemies had been defeated and put an end to.
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