Metal Gear Solid Question (This is bugging me to death)

Don't trust Metal Gear Solid for genetics. Also Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes retconned Solid Snake's blonde hair. But here's the way I see it:

Liquid Snake's blonde hair is dominant and Big Boss just simply exhibited a recessive trait. Liquid Snake has all the dominant genes, Solid Snake has all the recessive genes, and Soldius Snake has the best of both even if a recessive gene was superior to the dominant gene and vice versa.

 

But people don't exhibit just dominant or just recessive genes. They exhibit both. Brown hair must have been a recessive trait that Big Boss exhibited and the blonde hair must have been a dominant trait that was not exhibited.

 

No

Liquid Snake is 100% dominant and obtained the dominant blond hair gene. This dominant gene was not expressed by Big Boss.

Solid Snake is 100% recessive and obtained the recessive brown hair gene. This recessive gene was expressed by Big Boss.

Solidus Snake had the best genes. He expressed both recessive and dominant genes, just like Big Boss. Which ever gene had the best result he received. Hence why he was the perfect combiniation.

 

The woman who carried the fetuses of the clones of Big Boss did not have her genetic material implanted into the clones. The clone fetuses were created first then were implanted into the woman (sorta like what Phoebe did in that TV show Friends) hence the clones have 100% of their genetic material from Big Boss, no one else.

 

Yes, he obtained the blonde haired gene from his parents. It is a dominant gene, he just didn't exhibit it.

 

Not true if that were the case many recessive genetic disorders that are carried by only one parent like hemophelia, wouldn't come about.

 

I've thought of that also. That's the only other conclusion, that the Patriots and Solidus Snake lied to Revolver Ocelot and that Solid Snake really is the dominant clone. Just because a gene is recessive doesn't mean it's inferior to the dominant gene.

 

What it the!? I thought Snake had the dominant genes, that's why liquid was jealous of him.

 

............*head a'splodes*

 

Nope, at the end of the credits of Metal Gear Solid there's a conversation between Ocelot and Solidus that reveals that Liquid was the dominant clone. Liquid beleived that he was the recessive clone until the final minutes of his life where he realised that Snake was the recessive clone. Big Boss told Liquid all his life that he was the recessive clone and that Snake was the superior clone causing Liquid to develop an inferiority complex.

However that could be a lie on account that Snake looks exactly like Big Boss in his younger days instead of Liquid looking exactly like Big Boss in his younger days.

 

Okay cool, thanks fer clearing it up.

 

i have a theory that when Big Boss was clones they were more worried about the SOLDIER genes than the genes that make up hair/skin/eye color. remember...according to the briefing before Twin Snakes, the colonel said that Liquid's complexion is darker than Snake's.

 

I read the hippie and thread starter go back and forth, and... well, it makes me want to say, "F**k genetics."

 

Actually Metal Gear Solid isn't a good source for genetics.

 

Duuuuuh... MGS is only really kickass for its story and simple gameplay.

 

Boom Hippie your both operating under an error. Any shade between black and blonde is dominant. Having red hair is recessive. Just like having eye colur between green and brown so dark it's almost black is dominant to having blue eyes.

 

This is Metal Gear Solid though, so you have to modify the laws of genetics a little bit for it to make sense, because one clone has 100% recessive genes and 100% dominant genes. Metal Gear Solid is a piss poor source for learning genetics.

 

Ahh but, the shade of your hair isn't set in stone. It changes as you grow, and can be affected by other genetic factors. For example both my father and myself had almost platinum blond hair as kids. His is now brown and mine is still a very dark shade of blonde. So Solid and Liquid having blonde and brown hair does make sense, as they are different flavors of the same man.