.... already in the wiki with that information?  Seems like there is.

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.... it wasn't in the wiki. http://www.scottsigler.com/node/1547

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your question, Marie is ZZX

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 So with the same probability as within human populations of producing Kleinfelter's syndromes, the nondisjunction that needs to occur to make a gamete that would result in an king could occur in the human donor doing the groom's walk or in a similarly rare case of nondisjuncture from mommy.  This is why I love these novels/podcasts the "magic" follows rules that are tangible and I can logic my way through (eventually and with help from peeps here)

Thank you very muchly muchado

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I just spent the last 15 minutes searching the wiki for that!  Well, actually maybe 3-5 minutes actually looking for that info....  then I followed a link, then another, and another, etc....  that wiki!!  Sucks you in everytime!!

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it is in the wiki, it's just wicked misspelled.  It's entered as a Pundit Square....revisions to the entry to come.

EDIT: ok, kinda ghetto for the time being but I added the Punnett Square table to Mommy's entry for now.  Needs to be fleshed out with some verbiage but at least the table is there for now.  Thanks MuchAdo for finding the error.

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Gmork - Wiki Czar and Thwackacutioner

That's right...soak up all that FDO knowledge in the wiki, my pretties :)
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Gmork - Wiki Czar and Thwackacutioner

That's a really succinct and accurate summary of the whole concept!
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Gmork - Wiki Czar and Thwackacutioner

My favorite toasty Wiki Czar to the rescue.  Perhaps I can add some verbiage!

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Any assistance would be appreciated!
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Ow my feeble brain it hurts.

What he was trying to say was... was .... yup. scratch that. My brain kinda hurts too and as well.

Take no prisoners. Take no ....huh?!

That scene popped into my head, made me chukle.

**Conjunction Junction, what's your function? No seriously, I slept through grammar class, so I have no idea what you do.**

i learned it something like four years ago for my AP Biology. but thats the end of its practicality as far as I'm concerned lol. Normal punnet squares are 2x2, im pretty sure the info in Nocturnal uses a 3x3 which is entirely plausable, but much more difficult to explain. i might suggests finding it drawn out somewhere. and Scott, if your out there listening (reading?) might i suggest putting using an image of the punnet square in the Nocturnal hardcover?

Given that meiosis takes a cell and divides it into 2 gametes, wouldn't you get one gamete with one sex chromosome and one with two sex chromosome from each division rather than all ones from mommy and all twos from the king? Thus making the possible eggs from mommy x, z, xz and zz and the possible sperms from the king x, z, y, xy, xz and yz.

The chart on the wiki seems to make a chromosome disappear from mommy, and make the king one short at each meiotic event.

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

meiosis takes a cell and divides it into 4 gametes (only one of which is viable in the female).  Recarding the King - there is always nondisjunction in the King so the only possibilites there would be XY, XZ or YZ.  Now regarding Mommy - there are some problems there.  It seems that with the Queen there is always complete disjunction but that doesn't seem possible because when the chromosomes align during the first meiosis you would expect the two Z's especially or the ZX to align with one another.  I suppose Scott could claim complete disjunction of the sex chromosomes in the female.  A second possibility in the female is that the two Z's or the ZX do align leaving one chromosome without a partner.  The cells that obtain the partnerless chromosome could then become unviable gametes.  I'll need to think about this some more.

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of course 4 gametes, embarrassing mistake on my part.

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

the Z and X chromosomes from Mommy have to align with each other during the first meiosis.  If not, all her gametes whould have two Z's and one X (or three sex chromosomes) really complicating the sexual makeup.  This would still leave one unpartnered chromosome that would travel with one of the partnered chromosomes.  It would also give Mommy the ability to make gametes that are ZZ or ZX which would produce Kings, abominations and unknowns when mating with a normal male.  Mating with a King would produce some offspring that have 4 sex chromosomes likely to be unviable.  The female gametes that received only one sex chromosome (ie didn't contain the unpartnered chromosome) could produce viable offspring with a King.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.  I might need to draw this out to explain.  If so, let me know.

You can see my drawing here http://www.flickr.com/photos/34463593@N03/5474725116/

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking would be the possibilities for mommy. The nondisjunction in the king is likely what most confused me, I was thinking his alternatives would look similar to the scheme for mommy you drew, only with more options due to having three different sex chromosomes.

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