QUOTE (Mnesymone @ Jun 1 2005, 01:27 PM)
Midichlorians are, as the PT tells us, a universal ability - or as you put it, a genetic trait. Everyone has them, therefore the Jedi are only distinct by quantity there of.
However, they don't denote speciation or racial distinctions - owing to their universality they are more like mitochondria, and they pass through generations concurrently with the actual traits of the organism but in their own way.
And we won't put words in your mouth, wannabe legionnaire, cause you are putting enough of them there yourself.
I know that you can't help the know-it-all attitiude with being English and all, but you are wrong on so many levels. Mitichondria are universal in regards to complex cellular life in animals. So what? A dog has mitochondria, just as I do. But we're talking about race in humans here. Now if some humans be it black, asian, white (these are not races but social categories, as there is only one human race) had a pronounced level of a type of mitochondria which let's say allows one to levitate space ships, sway minds, jump multiple stories, discharge lightning from the palms of their hands, they would have enough genetic variation in their mitochondria to be considered a distinct race amongst humans. Now obviously the trait to have a preponderance of such mitochondria is an inherited one (Palpatine to Vader?) Vader to Luke which is a further instance of genetic variation. Somewhere the DNA is giving instructions to build more of these supermitochondria within the cells.
Secondly, what's this 'we' baloney. The post was addressed to someone specific, and not you. I know a nerd such as yourself relishes the role of hero, but go take a seat on the bench until the coach calls you out.
Legionnaire? I see no Legionairre here. My avatar is of the famed prima porta of Octavian Augustus, first emperor of Rome...dumb ass.