Alright are you ready for some statistics and informative... er.. information? Well get ready to do a lot of reading! I found that Xenia2 has quite a few differences in her than the average chichi genome! Most of the differences are very minor, only off a number or two, but there were a few that I thought were rather interesting and these I will share with you now.
I was a little surprised to find that in Xenia2 some things she feels will be felt stronger than your average norn. The things that will be stronger for her are pain, lonliness, crowded, fear and anger. These things when felt will be significantly stronger. There are a couple that will be less strong than your average norn. These things are Boredom and Comfort. When she feels these last two things they will have less of an impact on her. I guess that's good for the boredom thing!
I was interested to find out that the amount of progesterone she needs to actually lay an egg is higher than the average norn. This means she will be pregnant longer. Here is how it looked in the gene compare: The top example is your average norn, the bottom is Xenia2.
202 Different in file 1 68 0 You F MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Sensorimotor, Involuntary action 1, chem=Progesterone, thresh=223, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital (0)
202 Different in file 2 68 0 You F MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Sensorimotor, Involuntary action 1, chem=Progesterone, thresh=245, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital (0)
As always, if I misinterpret anything please correct me!
The next thing I found in the gene compare was a little less clear to me. I'm basically guessing at what it means
210 Different in file 1 69 0 You M MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 12, Creature, Circulatory, Floating receptor/emitter 5, chem=Testosterone, thresh=128, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital (0)
210 Different in file 2 69 0 You M MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 12, Creature, Somatic, Become senile, chem=Testosterone, thresh=128, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital (0)
As far as I can tell this means when she has 128 or more testosterone she will become senile. She is a female norn, so I'm not sure how it would affect her. I don't know what levels or lack there of female norns carry normally.
Next, Xenia2 has 174 Oestrogen in her all the time, normally. This is unlike a normal norn who apparently is supposed to have 0. she needs 186 Oestrogen to become firtile which is far greater than your average norn.
211 Different in file 1 71 0 You F MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 12, Creature, Reproductive, Become fertile if high, chem=Oestrogen, thresh=50, nom=0, gain=255, features=Analogue (0)
211 Different in file 2 71 0 Ado F MutDupCut 0 0 Organ# = 12, Creature, Reproductive, Become fertile if high, chem=Oestrogen, thresh=186, nom=174, gain=255, features=Analogue (0)
Again i'm not sure how this affects her but the difference seems pretty significant.
Next item:
307 Different in file 1 58 0 You B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 17, Creature, Circulatory, Floating receptor/emitter 14, chem=Stress (H4C),thresh=128, nom=0, gain=254, features=Digital (0)
308 Different in file 2 58 0 You B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 17, Creature, Somatic,Unknown Locus: 14, chem=Stress (H4C), thresh=128, nom=0, gain=254, features=Digital (0)
I have absolutely no idea what this means. It looked pretty significant though. I don't know what "floating receptors" or "emitters" are so I can't really understand it. Instead of the normal floating receptor Xenia2 gains unknown locus from stress, which I also don't know what it is.
In Xenia2 when she gains 48 fear toxin it makes her angry by creating 1 anger.
332 Different in file 1 93 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 18, 14*Fear toxin + 1*<NONE> => 1*Fear + 1*<NONE>; half-life = 32
334 Different in file 2 93 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 18, 48*Fear toxin + 1*<NONE> => 1*Anger + 1*<NONE>; half-life = 32
It's pretty straight forward. An illness that is fear toxin creates anger instead of fear, this will become handy if being fearful is more harmful to her than anger. (Is there such a situation? :o )
Xenia2 needs 10 muscle toxin to create 1 lactate while your average norn only needs 1 muscle toxin to create 1 lactate. As you may remember lactate is a chemical that creates a suffocation or choking affect.
Xenia2 also experiences less pain and sleepiness when laying eggs.
409 Different in file 1 23 0 You F MutDupCut 128 0 Involuntary 1 (29) causes sig=0 GS neu=9 int=34, ,,,240 => 9*Pain + 23*Sleepiness + -13*Progesterone + -124*Comfort
411 Different in file 2 23 0 You F MutDupCut 128 0 Involuntary 1 (29) causes sig=0 GS neu=9 int=34, ,,,240 => 1*Pain + 9*Sleepiness + -24*Progesterone + -124*Comfort
This will be helpful to her and allow her to bounce back quickly after laying. Some norns just seem so miserable afterwords!
Something else that may be helpful to her is that she seems to experience less pain and fear when hitting the ground from a fall, and it also reduces boredom!
414 Different in file 1 29 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Hitting the ground post fall (deprecated) (39) causes sig=0 GS neu=0 int=0, ,,,112 => 17*Pain + 10*Fear + 5*90 + 0*<NONE>
416 Different in file 2 29 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Hitting the ground post fall (deprecated) (39) causes sig=0 GS neu=0 int=0, ,,,112 => 1*Pain + 1*Fear + -6*Boredom + 0*<NONE>
If this is true, jumping off of high places may be a good way for her to reduce boredom.. playing. Seems kind of weird though..
The last thing that I found to be significant enough to mention was something that I found to be somewhat worrisome. When your average norn is in the presence of food and feels hunger for fat, their instinct is to eat. Well Xenia2 is a little different.
455 Different in file 1 4 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 [03: stim] [Cell 11 (Food)] + [Brain Lobe 255] [Cell 0] + [Brain Lobe 255] [Cell 0] and [Hunger for fat] => Cell 12 (Eat); unknown = 31.
457 Different in file 2 4 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 [03: stim] [Cell 10 (Detritus)] + [Brain Lobe 255] [Cell 0] + [Brain Lobe 255] [Cell 0] and [Hunger for fat] => Cell 12 (Eat); unknown = 62.
According to this when Xenia2 feels a hunger for fat she doesn't get the instinct to eat when in the presence of food... rather it is only when she is in the presence of detritus.. which is waste. Detritus can be harmful when eaten by your average norn (that isn't a toxic norn). If Xenia2 is unable to digest detritus (which i've not seen in her genetic anywhere anything like that digestive system of a toxic norn) then she will become sick if she follows her instinct.
These are all of the genetic differences you can expect from Xenia2. It doesn't look like anything particularly shocking but there are some minor interests in here. If you see anything i've interpreted wrong or figured something out that I haven't please let me know. :D And as always, thank you for reading!
The "floating receptor/emitter" system is a pretty spiffy way of allowing one chemical to affect another. The unaltered gene would trigger the norn's body to emit Stress in response to high amounts of Stress (H4C). This doesn't happen for Xenia2. While it won't trigger a major reduction in Stress, Stress isn't a particularly healthy chemical, so the less of it there is the better for the norn.
ReplyDeleteXenia2 doesn't have 174 Oestrogen in her at all times - or at least, not the chemical itself. Nominal is basically the default level a receptor functions at. Since it's not zero for that particular reaction, it means that Xenia2 can become fertile even without Oestrogen. It might mean that she'll be a more active breeder than her fellows (although not to insane extents as the reproductive system is a bit more complex than that).
Finally, the testosterone thing. It won't affect her at all (it's a male-only gene), and even for her male children I doubt it'll affect them much (I'm not quite sure what that particular gene is supposed to do). The worst case scenario would probably be an Old male with a lot of testosterone suddenly jumping to the Senile lifestage.
Just elaborating on a few things - Genetics is my specialty, after all. P=
Grendel Man, thank you for your corrections! You have really enlightened me to a little deeper of an understanding of the chemicals and reactions! It's always exciting when I learn more about the creatures genetics!
DeleteI understand what you explained about the floating receptors and emitters.Less stress is definately better.
I also understand what you mean with the testosterone. I wasn't sure if it did affect females since i've seen it listed in female genetics, I just didn't know if it was ever acted. I know in real life women have small amounts of testosterone in their systems naturally, so thank you for enlightening me on that.
The oestrogen then, again thank you for enlightening me and explaining it. I guess where my confusion about how it works comes in where "nominal" is used. I thought it basically was synonymous with "normal" meaning what is "normally" always in their system to be considered a healthy, normal amount. Obviously that way of describing "nominal" is wrong so i'm trying to wrap my mind around the true meaning.
You said Xenia2 can become fertile even without oestrogen, but isn't the "threshold" (which is slightly bigger than the nominal) the amount needed to create an active affect of the chemical, in this case oestrogen? I'm also a little confused by that.
Again thank you so much for commenting!
Not necessarily. Here's the equation as to how receptors work:
DeleteNominal + (((ChemicalAmount - Threshold) * Gain/255) * R)
R in this case is 1 or -1 depending on whether the "Output Reduces with increased simulation" switch is turned on or not.
Basically, the nominal is the normal functioning level of the receptor. The threshold and gain determine the functioning level of the receptor when the chemical it's associated with is present.
So basically, the receptor in question functions when there's no oestrogen present (meaning that Xenia2 can become fertile without it), but oestrogen makes it work faster.
Hopefully, that should make a little more sense.
EDTA in the real world is a chelating agent, used to treat metal poisoning. FWIW...! ;)
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