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[blue16yo]

ok, if my memory recalls correctly, cloud and his friends go to the shinra building and some how prevent hojo from breeding red xiii and aeris, but what if, cloud didnt make it in time, what if hojo DID end up trying to breed them. would have it worked? how would the offsprings look like??? Maybe hojo had something interesting going on. lol.

[Flying Mullet]

I don't think Hojo would have been successful if Cloud and gang hadn't appeared. As Red XIII says, he was playing dumb so Hojo wouldn't be suspicious of him and he never had any intention of frolicking under Aeris' dress.

Then, even if they did happen to mate for some reason, Aeris wouldn't have been impregnated or the fetus would have been rejected extremely early on. They're genetically too far apart for it to work.

I just watched a TV show on whether Stalin was trying to breed a super-warrior race of monkey men and they went into a lot of detail about how, even though chimpanzees are genetically the closest monkey to humans, they still wouldn't have much success. Even if they were able to produce offspring, they would either be infertile/sterile or would die extremely young due to the different number of chromosomes.

[Aerith's Knight]

I dont even want to know.. sick sick sick

[cloud21zidane16]

Flying Mullet explains this well, their just to different for anything to happen. I hope.

[Bahamut2000X]

I think the answer is obvious, Hojo is just a a super pimp.

[scrumpleberry]

Originally Posted by Bahamut2000X ^

I think the answer is obvious, Hojo is just a a super pimp.

I wonder what other experiments of such a nature he's tried his hand at..? Maybe that's where FFIX's Quina comes from!

And yes, Mullet has it right.

[BG-57]

Although some closely related species can interbreed (lions/tigers and horses/donkeys), their species look much too different.

That being said, Hojo could have quite easily created a chimeric cell by combining their cells together.

Also scientists have also have been able to breed a mouse that they can insert a human immune system into.

Using DNA manipulation it's quite easy to insert foreign genes into organisms of a different species. Examples include bacteria that make human insulin and tobacco plants that express a firefly gene and can glow in the dark.

These last two techniques involve modifying existing organisms. As for the first one, a single hybrid cell is not the same as a viable organism.

[Roogle]

I do not believe that Hojo was trying to create offspring by having Aerith and Red XIII mate with each other. The idea seems kind of ridiculous!

I think that he was going for some mad, twisted creation by some other method like taking samples from both of them and creating a test tube baby, and it would be a hideous monster similar to one of the monstrous forms that Hojo takes on later in the game.