"Damnit, Captain, I'm a grandmother, not a geneticist!"
Okey dokey. If I understand it correctly, the Hoffan drug was an inoculation that, once given, either rendered the recipient immune from being fed on by Wraith or killed them, with a 50% mortality rate. Since inoculations in general don't provide an immunity that passes to the next generation (new babies have to get their own inoculations), one might presume that the Hoffan drug works the same way. However, this is Pegasus, where nothing seems to work 'in general' so you could spin it however you wanted or needed to, lol.
As for the artificial ATA gene, I think it would depend on what chromosome(s) it altered as to whether or not it could be carried onto the next generation, so you could possibly make a case for it working either way, not that you asked that, lol.
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Date: 2008-10-23 02:09 pm (UTC)"Damnit, Captain, I'm a grandmother, not a geneticist!"
Okey dokey. If I understand it correctly, the Hoffan drug was an inoculation that, once given, either rendered the recipient immune from being fed on by Wraith or killed them, with a 50% mortality rate. Since inoculations in general don't provide an immunity that passes to the next generation (new babies have to get their own inoculations), one might presume that the Hoffan drug works the same way. However, this is Pegasus, where nothing seems to work 'in general' so you could spin it however you wanted or needed to, lol.
As for the artificial ATA gene, I think it would depend on what chromosome(s) it altered as to whether or not it could be carried onto the next generation, so you could possibly make a case for it working either way, not that you asked that, lol.