Another reason was that he wanted a successor for Outer Heaven, he knew that Liquid's hatred of him would lead him to attempt to surpass him. By telling Liquid he was worthless, he knew Liquid would fight 10 times harder to prove he wasn't. This was down to Big Boss, who lied to Liquid to give him an inferiority complex. Liquid believed that his recessive genes were inferior to Snake's dominant genes, when it was actually the other way round. The reason most people get confused is they assume dominant = superior and recessive = inferior, when this isn't the case at all. Snake is the dominant clone and Liquid is the recessive clone, as is indicated by their hair colour. I usually have quite dark hair, but exposure to strong sunlight often causes it to turn blonde. And don't neglect the importance of the effects of Liquid's environment on his hair colour. :P BBMSteve 20:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)įor now at least, I think the most important thing to bear in mind that it is never stated that Big Boss carried one dominant and recessive allele for each trait, so it's possible that both Liquid and Solid inherited recessive and dominant traits. Until then, I'm going to forget about it. If you do find an answer to this, I'd be more than interested to hear what you have to say. Oh, you've not annoyed me at all, it's just that I cannot provide any more arguments as I simply do not know enough about the subject (it's been 7 years since I studied anything of the sort!). I am a Biochem student but it has been awhile since i worked with dominance with respect to hair color but as far I know, I think it is wrong genetically. Sorry, I didn't mean to oppose you to the point of aggravation. If I'm being honest, I think you're thinking into the whole thing a little too deeply what does it matter if there's a mistake? Snake has dark hair, Liquid has blonde hair. Anyway, I am no expert in genetics, so I'm not going to argue this any further. If you play MGS3 again, I'm sure you'll agree with me that Naked Snake's hair looks a lot lighter than the average brown-haired person's. However, the inheritence pattern for blonde hair and blue eyes is considered to be similar to monogenic traits. As far as Big Boss himself, It is certain that he does have some recessive genes as he was a normally conceived human but they would only show if he just possessed those recessive genes and they would have to be in all of his clones but this cannot be the case for brown hair -D558Īs far as I'm aware, both human hair and eye colour are polygenic traits, meaning they are controlled by two or more genes.
As for eye color Big Boss, Liquid and Solid Snake all have blue eyes meaning that either Big boss had a Double dominant blue eye genotype (if blue eyes are dominant) or a double recessive genotype (if blue eyes are recessive) leaving no room for variation to "pick and choose" alleles/genes to distribute/pass-on in the Les Enfants Terrible project.
Well big boss definitly has brown hair which is not recessive (its either dominant or an incomplete dominant trait, i can't remember) so unless Liquid dyed his hair this was a mishap. I thought Big Boss showed recessive physical traits - blue eyes, blonde hair, etc. Therefore if liquid has all of Big bosses dominant genes he would have the gene that makes his hair brown (whether through dominance over a coupled recessive gene or incomplete dominance with its partner allele.) -D558 BBMSteve 16:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)īig Boss does not seem to have blonde hair, as naked snake has brown hair and in later appearances he has grey/white hair because of aging. Also, it is worth noting that dominance doesn't always equal "good" displaying a recessive trait isn't necessarily a weakness. Liquid did not receive ONLY dominant genes he received all of Big Boss's dominant genes. That is why Liquid is blond and not dark-haired. Therefore, as Liquid is a clone of Big Boss, it is impossible for Big Boss to have given Liquid or Solid Snake dominant hair colour genes. However, Big Boss is also blond, which means his genome must have TWO recessive hair colour chromosomes and NO dominant ones. that and a person containing the same dominant genes would look very much like a person with the same dominant genes (as snake looks almost identical to naked snake when compared with liquid)-D558īlonde hair is a recessive trait, yes, which implies that Liquid does have recessive genes. 7 So, when can we unprotect this page as well as Solid and Solidus' pages?Īt the end of the game wasn't it stated that Liquid actually possessed the dominant genes? If it does, it doesn't make sense as blonde hair is essentially a recessive trait.
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