Try not to laugh at this

segarox

Now this'll be a very stupid question and I figured that I'd post it here in case it got taken down. Watching a cartoon yesterday, a man was injected with animal DNA and became a cross between a jungle cat, a bat and a man (and before you ask, I didn't see this on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I saw this on an old cartoon called Gargoyles). Anyway, I was wondering if this could actually happen and that science fiction could become science fact. Maybe this is one for the paranormal forum but I thought I'd get it out there.

endacl

No. It couldn't happen. Injecting DNA would do nothing.

Ever been stung by a bee? If yes, bee DNA entered your body by injection when you were. You don't have superbee powers.

If it could happen, I'd be part dog (bitten), part bee (stung), part wasp (likewise), and part various other creatures.

Now, to the DNA bit. You do realise that there isn't a 'separate' DNA for each distinct creature? DNA is a molecule, made up of base pairs of adenine-thymine and adenine-cytosine. That's all it is. Most of it is common to most organisms. The paranormal forum might indeed be a great place to find discussion of, for example, lizard DNA, but the fact is, there's just DNA. That is present in the cell nuclei of lizards. The same base pairs, but in a lizard-ey sequence. Which will of course vary from individual to individual.

Tl;dr: No. It couldn't happen. Injecting DNA would do nothing.

Edit: For discussion of 'lizard DNA', CT would be the best forum. In terms of both comical inaccuracy and supporting youtube videos.

segarox

Thanks man, I knew it was a stupid question but I had to ask it

Mickeroo

I loved Gargoyles.

Johnny Storm

But if it was radioactive DNA........ ?

Starokan

Gargoyles was awesome, thanks for reminding me of it op

RDM_83 again

endacl wrote: »

No. It couldn't happen. Injecting DNA would do nothing.

Ever been stung by a bee? If yes, bee DNA entered your body by injection when you were. You don't have superbee powers.

If it could happen, I'd be part dog (bitten), part bee (stung), part wasp (likewise), and part various other creatures.

Now, to the DNA bit. You do realise that there isn't a 'separate' DNA for each distinct creature? DNA is a molecule, made up of base pairs of adenine-thymine and adenine-cytosine. That's all it is. Most of it is common to most organisms. The paranormal forum might indeed be a great place to find discussion of, for example, lizard DNA, but the fact is, there's just DNA. That is present in the cell nuclei of lizards. The same base pairs, but in a lizard-ey sequence. Which will of course vary from individual to individual.

Tl;dr: No. It couldn't happen. Injecting DNA would do nothing.

Edit: For discussion of 'lizard DNA', CT would be the best forum. In terms of both comical inaccuracy and supporting youtube videos.

Good answer
But say somebody writing schlock decided to put a little bit of research into their work, instead of having a load of radioactivel DNA being injected, they were injected with a load of a virus like this which has been modified to carry Lizard DNA, obviously in the real world you would end up with a tumour ridden mess but it would be a tumour ridden mess containing lizard DNA

Wabbit Ears

You copuld genetically splice human and other DNA but you'd have to be born with this so the modification would have to be done at the egg stage. You would have to have some thing that infected every cell in your body to merge it with foreign DNA and that would just kill you but thats the stuff of SCI-fi, people figuring out how do do a DNA splice via some sort of virus to a fully grown specimen..

wyrn

There's a hilariously bad film about this - Splice. I really enjoyed it because it was so bad. It has Adrien Brody & David Hewlett. I'd advise having a glass of wine if you watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIeSYhipUs