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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] You are, of course right: I said "monkey" when I meant "chimpanzee". Silly of me- I hate both. :D We're about 97 percent chimpanzee (with elected officials being closer to 100%) but that's still a big diffrence genetically. We're also 80-90% bear, whale and almost every other mammal. A LOT of the DNA is (aparantly) used to determine cell structure and basic makeup of an organism and a lot of the strand is inactive or holdover genetic material from our evolutionary process. That leaves the imporntant 5-10 percent that determines our phenotype, species, inherited traits and lastly gender and disposition. Alter the last little bit of our code and you'll acess many of the "holdover" sequences to get new (and almost certainly sickly) variants on humanity. The Xindi thing in the fish tank is probably the closest we'd be able to alter ourselves: we already start life with gills and a vestigal tail in vitro, after all. But it's just coincidence that Enterprise got ahold of the reptile's DNA and not the inscectoid's: otherwise I doubt there'd be enough common genetic markers to identify as "Xindi" based on Starfleet's lack of information on them. If we were mabye 150-200 years further in our genetic research (that's a HUGE way, BTW) we might be able to combine our own inherited traits with some novel animal DNA to get the species diversity of the Xindi, but aside from a biiig experiment it's kinda useless to do that: We'd already be able to create custom bodies that could handle any environment the Xindi might represent. That's why i'd write the Xindi background as a Preserver experiment. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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