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→‎What are the Daodan Chrysalises, really?: moving the blurb on transplanting the Daodan into its own section
(→‎What are the Daodan Chrysalises, really?: breaking out the discovery question into its own section)
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::Pros: Preserves the mystery of the Daodan, especially if it's even more low-level than a virus. Cf. [[wikipedia:viroid|viroids]], [[wikipedia:plasmid|plasmids]] (rolling circles, electroporation and replicons, oh my!), [[wikipedia:prion|prions]], [[wikipedia:transposon|transposons]].
::Pros: Preserves the mystery of the Daodan, especially if it's even more low-level than a virus. Cf. [[wikipedia:viroid|viroids]], [[wikipedia:plasmid|plasmids]] (rolling circles, electroporation and replicons, oh my!), [[wikipedia:prion|prions]], [[wikipedia:transposon|transposons]].
::Cons: It's complicated! Much easier to just say that the Daodan is a special plant. Also, if the Daodan is transferred on the genetic level, might it be contagious? That would run counter to Hasegawa's notion of the Daodan needing to be implanted, person by person. This would have story-changing implications.
::Cons: It's complicated! Much easier to just say that the Daodan is a special plant. Also, if the Daodan is transferred on the genetic level, might it be contagious? That would run counter to Hasegawa's notion of the Daodan needing to be implanted, person by person. This would have story-changing implications.
:Assuming that the Daodan is anything but animal, then it does not possess any intelligence. It may simply be accustomed to infecting other lifeforms in order to reproduce. However, because the Daodan is foreign to our biosphere, it proves lethal to our life, as do many other plants in the Wilderness. Jamie was killed by a plant that either defended itself with substances harmful to other Wilderness life that might try to eat it, or else it was just minding its own business, but it was highly inimical to human bodies. Think of how some people have allergies to pollen, and you realize that a totally foreign "flowering shrub" could very well kill someone without "meaning to".
:The only fact we have to go on with the Daodan is that it had to be grown along with human tissue in a controlled environment. Later, this Chrysalis was able to be implanted in Muro and Mai. So either Hasegawa and Kerr had to train the Daodan to get along with human DNA, or else there was no training needed and they were simply being cautious and ethical in trying to study the Daodan on tissue instead of real people.


===How did Hasegawa discover the power of the Daodan organism?===
===How did Hasegawa discover the power of the Daodan organism?===
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