1 | An index concerned with tropes about genes and biological heritage. |
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3 | !!Tropes: |
4 | [[index]] |
5 | [floatboxright: |
6 | '''UsefulNotes:''' |
7 | + '''{{UsefulNotes/Genetics}}''' |
8 | + {{UsefulNotes/DNA}} |
9 | |
10 | '''Related indexes:''' |
11 | + FamilyTropes |
12 | + GenerationalTropes |
13 | + HollywoodEvolution |
14 | + InterracialAndInterspeciesLoveIndex |
15 | + OurClonesAreIdentical |
16 | + {{Transhuman}} |
17 | ] |
18 | [[AC:General tropes]] |
19 | * AllGenesAreCodominant: An interspecies hybrid baby ends up getting 50/50 genes. |
20 | * ArtificialHybrid: Someone who was born one species but was turned into a hybrid. |
21 | * BioweaponBeast: An artificially created creature made to be a living weapon. |
22 | * BreedingCult: A secret society that practices eugenics. |
23 | * BreedingSim: A video game focused on breeding creatures for specific traits. |
24 | * CloneAngst: A clone angsts over the fact that they are a genetic duplicate of another person. |
25 | * CreatureBreedingMechanic: In a game, the player breeds creatures until they have a necessary creature. |
26 | * CustomBuiltHost: A body designed to serve as a host for possession, often through genetic engineering. |
27 | * DarwinistDesire: Someone will only have sex with a person with the "right" DNA. |
28 | * DesignerBabies: Altering a fetus so the baby will be "perfect". |
29 | * DominantSpeciesGenes: When species X and Y have kids, the kid is always an X. |
30 | * EitherOrOffspring: When two species breed, you always get one or the other, never a hybrid. |
31 | * ExtraYExtraViolent: Men with an extra Y chromosome are violent, even though real life men with XYY syndrome are simply taller and more susceptible to learning disabilities. |
32 | * GenderEqualsBreed: When an interspecies couple have children, the male children look like their father and the female children look like their mother. |
33 | * GenerationalMagicDecline: Your magic is weaker than your father's, just as he is weaker than his father, who was weaker than his father, and so on and so on. |
34 | * GeneticAbomination: A horrifying monstrosity born of genetic engineering. |
35 | * GeneticAdaptation: Outsiders adapt to a hostile environment (such as that on other planets) by genetically modifying themselves. |
36 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Weird story aspects are explained as being the result of genetic engineering. |
37 | * GeneticMemory: An ability to record personal memories/skills into their genes and pass them onto their offspring. |
38 | * GeniusBreedingAct: Breeding smart people with each other to create smart babies. |
39 | * HalfHumanHybrid: A being who is half-human and half-something that isn't human. |
40 | * HeinzHybrid: A hybrid of an implausible number of different species. |
41 | * HereditaryHomosexuality: Homo- or bisexuality runs in families. |
42 | * HereditarySuicide: Suicide and/or suicide attempts run in families. |
43 | * HereditaryTwinhood: Having twins occurs through family generations. |
44 | * HeroicLineage: Heroism is passed down through the family. |
45 | * HollywoodGenetics: A biological family who doesn't look related. |
46 | * HybridizationPlot: A character's motive or the plot is dedicated to creating a hybrid. |
47 | * HybridOverkillAvoidance: A hybrid can only inherit so many traits at once before it becomes mutated beyond recognition, or some traits cannot be inherited at all, to prevent severe mutation. |
48 | * HybridPower: An offspring always inherits the special abilities of their parents, and these often enhance each other. |
49 | * HybridsAreACrapshoot: The hybrid is defective in some way as a result of being a hybrid. |
50 | * InbredAndEvil: A villainous child of inbreeding. |
51 | * InTheBlood: Personality traits, morality, and certain behaviors are passed down from generation to generation. |
52 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: Family members tend to have similar personalities. |
53 | * LamarckWasRight: A character inherits a non-genetic trait from their parents. |
54 | * LegoGenetics: Mixing DNA can alter a person's body. |
55 | * MageSpecies: The ability to use magic is inherent to a certain species. |
56 | * MagicGenetics: Genetic mutations can give you superpowers. |
57 | * MixAndMatchCritters: Taking two different animals and combining them into one. |
58 | * MixAndMatchMan: A clone created by combining DNA from two or more individuals. |
59 | * MutagenicGoo: AppliedPhlebotinum ooze that can instantly mutate whatever it touches. |
60 | * {{Mutants}}: Genetically abnormal organisms that look significantly different from normal members of their species. |
61 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: A being who is a mixture of two different non-human species. |
62 | * NotBloodNotFamily: A character insists that someone isn't family because of a lack of genetic relation. |
63 | * PatchworkKids: Kids that have the combined physical features of their parents. |
64 | * RapidDNATest: A DNA test takes way less time in fiction than it does in reality. |
65 | * RecessiveSuperGenes: SuperpowerfulGenetics may skip generations. |
66 | * RoyalInbreeding: Only having sex with blood relatives to keep the bloodline pure |
67 | * SuperBreedingProgram: Breeding "better" people. |
68 | * SuperiorSuccessor: A younger generation proves to be more competent than the previous one. |
69 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: A super-powered being will have children who inherit their powers. |
70 | * TrueBreedingHybrid: Hybrids capable of reproduction to the point of becoming a separate species. |
71 | * TwoDonorClone: A clone made up of two or more genetic sources. |
72 | * UnevenHybrid: Majority ancestry of one species, and minority ancestry of another. |
73 | * UnstableGeneticCode: A genetic defect that causes random InvoluntaryShapeshifting. |
74 | * VillainousLineage: When characters are born into an evil family, they run the risk of becoming evil themselves. |
75 | * WrongGeneticSex: A character's genetic sex doesn't match up with the gender that they appear to be. |
76 | * XenoNucleicAcid: Alien lifeforms have a very different genetic structure when compared with terrestrial DNA. |
77 | |
78 | [[AC:Genetics-related TwinTropes]] |
79 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: When twins of the same sex are mentioned in fiction, they are almost always identical, not fraternal. |
80 | * ConjoinedTwins: Twins who are born fused to each other, sharing the same body. |
81 | * HalfIdenticalTwins: Brother-sister (i.e., fraternal) twins act identical in all ways other than sex. |
82 | * HereditaryTwinhood: "Being a twin" is treated like a genetic pre-disposition such that being a twin almost guarantees one's children or grandchildren will also be twins or that one has twin ancestors. |
83 | * SameSexTriplets: A set of triplets is more often than not all identical and of the same sex. |
84 | [[/index]] |
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