What about the example in Alien?
John Hurt gave birth to a baby that didn't look in any way like him. He was raised purely in the culture of his father and did not know anything of the culture or traditions of his other parent. Despite this childhood the child showed no characteristics of his father's culture and seemed to somehow know them because they were in his blood. This to me proves that culture can be genetic.
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 14:18,
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*sniffs*
The Alien or "Xenomorph X121" takes on certain physical characteristics from it's "mother" via horizontal gene transfer.
In Alien John Hurts spawn was bipedal with 2 arms and 2 legs and in Aliens the numerous xenomorphs that were bred from the colonists / terraformars of the planet LB426 were similar in appearance.
However in Alien 3 the first alien to appear is bred inside a canine (or a bovine depending on which cut you watch) and here the xenomorph is clearly a quadruped having inherited those characteristics from it's host.
When the host is a Yautja (The alien antagonist from the movies Predator and Predator 2) it will inherit mandibles and a yellow / green skin.
So your assertion that the xenomorph inherits none of the characteristics of the host mother is basically flawed science.
*sniffs*
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 14:41,
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I concede to your very well argued point about inheriting physical characteristics from both parents
however my point was more based on cultural characteristics, possibly better put as stereotypes. I maintain that baby alien took the characteristics of the alien rather than John Hurt. Without wanting to offend any aliens by stereotyping, the alien cultural characteristics are mainly punching people in the face with a giant set of teeth, being able to climb walls and being constantly covered in slime. John Hurt is an englishman so his characteristics are enjoying cricket, warm ales, pork pies and morris dancing. In the film I saw virtually nothing of the latter set and all of the former.
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You're correct.
Whilst there may be some behaviour traits carried over these are only really prevalent when there has been some extreme genetic transgenesis as seen in Alien Resurrection.
Your naturally spawned xenomorph maintains behaviors in keeping with it's kin and inherits practically nothing if anything from the mother.
I concede the point sir, well played.
*has a cup of milky tea*
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:08,
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yeah
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:23,
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What about the squid thing in "Prometheus"?
Or do we just not talk about that?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:19,
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Oh *THANK* you. I'd almost managed to forget about "Prometheus"
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:22,
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I've not seen it and as a big fan of the Alien films I don't plan to.
BTW the Alien Isolation game is bloody scary fun.
*sneak sneak sneak*
*Stompy stompy stompy*
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:28,
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I've enjoyed Prometheus in the cinema at first but overall still
a letdown.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 20:02,
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Ha! I was waiting for this post. I think there are some inconsistencies regarding canonical way here though.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 20:01,
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Yeah, OK.
There might be the odd exception. Still: exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis, an' all that jazz.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 30 Oct 2014, 15:18,
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Jesus is an interesting one
as I see it he picked up his mum and both dad's cultural characteristics. His biological Dad is English so Jesus got his natural sense of fair play. Mary and Joseph are forrins so he got a worldly perspective on matters.
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