Line #3 Main/GeneticTropes


1	An index concerned with tropes about genes and biological heritage.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	[[index]]
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6	'''UsefulNotes:'''
7	+ '''{{UsefulNotes/Genetics}}'''
8	+ {{UsefulNotes/DNA}}
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10	'''Related indexes:'''
11	+ FamilyTropes
12	+ GenerationalTropes
13	+ HollywoodEvolution
14	+ InterracialAndInterspeciesLoveIndex
15	+ OurClonesAreIdentical
16	+ {{Transhuman}}
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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.
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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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