Originally posted by WraithTech
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Well.. I am a pharmacist, so I like biology and I like believable science fiction where you can mix the fiction with real science. Basic genetic laws are even educated in secondary school for everyone in Hungary. I try to look dumb now, but in the last year of our high school (at age 18) we learn about the Mendelian inheritance laws:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
Or how the blood types of the colour of your eyes changing regarding your genotype. Or X chromosoma related illnesses etc. So these things are general knowledge in Hungary or maybe my gymnasium was really strong in education.
You know Juniors can inherit informations from the Goa'uld Queens. If you remember that disgusting scene lots of larvas were flooting in Hathor's bath water. So that is how the symbionte directly inherits their "Queens" memory.
But the Harsiesis story was a combination as two Goa'uld human hosts are creating a Harsiesis. So it means that whatever happens with the hosts, the parasite must modifiy the DNA to inherit some genetic memories or the hosts would have a normal child.
But it also means if the Goa'uld changes the host's human DNA than that change can be studied. Maybe even memories can be learnt. That is what they tried with Vala in Memento Mori or when they "cloned" Sahmet in season 7. So even if it was not directly confirmed the hosts must have been "infected" by the Goa'uld memories on a genetic way.
If you read my little fan fiction in spoiler tag, I tried to blame a new alien race, the Titans for turning the Goa'uld evil. We knew from the First One episode (the Unas episode from season 4) that those Goa'ulds haven't had any naqadah in their body. Maybe the official writers could find out a good background story what happened and it has influenced not just the Goa'uld anatomy but also their thinking as well.
So Harsiesis... We could explain it that they are dangerous only if two ACTIVE Goa'uld host creates a new child. So ex-Goa'uld hosts or if the symbionte was removed it doesn't matter. I believe I have made quite a good job to try to fill the plot holes in this genetic tale.
And don't forget that a horrible amount of our own DNA also doesn't code anything as I have written above. It is not logical from nature that it spends so much time to copy something what hasn't got any biological activity. So no enzymes, no proteins, nothing expressed from there. Probably it must have been some genetic "rubbish" from the evolution, but every organism are still copying them.
If you watched the finale of BattleStar Galactica they also pulled a nice genetic trick. They have revealed
that mitochondrial DNA is actually CYLON DNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis
It happened in the past somewhere that eukaryotic cells has got such cell parts (mitochondrions) which inherited always from mother to mothers as fathers can not pass this genes with sperm cells. So basically even our evolution jump had a "symbionte". And that is the reason I love this clever solution from BSG.
And who knows? If we want to talk about the quiet section of our DNA, then they can put a little fiction in it as these DNA sections would be perfect for a Stargate tale. Unfortunately I am not so sure the audience would understand it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_DNA
So back to the ATA gene sequence. That is the reason it was not logical that it is a random characteristics. Maybe the dialogue was a bit unpolished in Rising (as they even jumped million years in the first scene). But if you know genetics than there is not such things as random. Maybe you can carry a gene which is not expressed (like a recessive allel), but it will never ever show up randomly in a population. It must be inherited then it means that previous and future generations must carry it as well.
If you remember they even used a retrovirus in Atlantis, which sounds as a cool technoblablabla, but technically they have injected ATA genes into each other. That is how McKay became a carrier of genes. But it also means that the potential future baby McKays will also carry it as well.
Obviously such genes would express more if both parents would have the ATA genes, so if you lock up some Ancients on a planet then all their future childrens should have it. That is the reason it was a bit weird to accept that less and less people can use Ancient technology in the Pegasus galaxy as technically all human populations are the descendants of the Ancients.
But who knows? Maybe they brought some "normal" humans to the Pegasus galaxy. It is still a question what they were doing there for million years. If Daedalus could fly between MW-P galaxies for 3 weeks, then the Atlantis cityship also must have done this journey quickly. Then what were they doing in the Pegasus galaxy for million years?
I always wanted to see an Origin story about the Iratus bugs. I wanted to understand how the Wraith was created. That is the reason I believe we should hear a story how an Ancient expedition was "captured" by the Iratus bugs then this Ancient Lady became the first Wraith Queen. It would be amazing to bring back Andee Frizzell as she is the key character of the Wraith. This little Origins story could explain why the Queens look the same as well....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0969160/
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