impregnate werewolf?
June 4, 2011 8:20 PM   Subscribe

If a woman is impregnated by a werewolf.... does the baby carry the werewolf gene?
posted by foodybat to Pets & Animals (4 answers total)

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Isn't werewolf-ism an infection rather than a gene? If so, the baby could be infected if the mother was.
posted by parkerjackson at 8:23 PM on June 4, 2011


Depends on whether it's dominant or recessive.

Dominant = 50% chance if she is not herself a werewolf, 87.5% if she is.
Recessive = 0% if she is homozygous human, 50% if she is heterozygous human, 100% if she's a werewolf too.

This assumes the gene is on a normal chromosome and not the X or Y.
posted by overhauser at 8:27 PM on June 4, 2011


This depends on the mythos. Some have lycanthropy as inheritable or even a separate species. Others it's an infection of some sort. Still others treat lycanthory as the result of a curse or either religious or magical origin.
posted by Mitheral at 8:28 PM on June 4, 2011


In Teen Wolf, the dad was a werewolf, as was the son, even thought the mom was not. This is the definitive representation within the mythology, of course, and should be considered canonical.
posted by SpacemanStix at 8:30 PM on June 4, 2011 [1 favorite]


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