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But it won't be. Brian K. Vaughan has stated that the cause will be revealed in time.

I'm being interpreted too literally. I was just voicing my dislike of the anti-environmentalist sentiments in this thread which somehow sprung out of a few casual remarks about the state of nature. If you're a philanthrope who devotes effort to helping your fellow man but isn't overly fond of...

Maybe they care about giving some meaning to their lives by accomplishing something rather than spend their time at the golf course complaining about taxes and immigrants. Feeling smug much, Atomic Cowboy? I suspect you actually know nothing about the guy's life so please get off your high...

Sounds odd;I mean a failure of all chromosomes to segregate during meiosis can produce a diploid gamete and occasionally two sperm may fertilize an ovum, resulting in a triploid zygote but what are the odds of both of these events happening to a couple who have a kid together?

Ratty brought up a point that didn't occur to me, namely that FEV gives the host's DNA a quadhelix structure. Assuming that such a thing is possible, it would seriously mess with the process of chromosome condensation and packing, whether there were two (dualhelix) strands or just one, still...

Right; while explaining the flaw in his plan to the Master, I recall one of the dialogue options being something like: "Maybe the virus didn't turn people sterile once but it does now". This is an indication of what you're saying but if FEV always had that healing effect, I don't get how the...

Based on what the Glow computer says, they're not damaged per se but replicated, resulting in aneuploidy: wrong amount of chromosomes. The concept of a virus "healing" its host is clever, since it ensures its own survival in the process. It kind of makes sense if FEV happens to be a provirus...

Sorry, I'm used to being around people who are familiar with this stuff. One sometimes doesn't think about that most people aren't. To start from the beginning, diploid organisms such as we have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. Their germ cells (gametes) are haploid, meaning...

If the FEV virus "repairs" its host's gametes by restoring their chromosome complement, would sterility necessarily befall the parental generation? Wouldn't the F1-generation simply become tetraploid? In fact, autopolyploidy would probably naturally enhance the FEV effect by making the offspring...