Talk:Amon/@comment-68.150.164.203-20120522212043/@comment-3005995-20120522222053

Well, as long as bending is genetic, then no, that wouldn't work, unless they had enough non-bender genes in them.

An experiment was done a while ago, testing the theory of some evolutionist (forgot his name), who basically said traits altered in a creatures life are genetic. They took a bunch of rats, cut off their tails (humanely, of course), bred them, and obsreved their offspring. They all had tails. They continued this for several generations, and the rats were continuously born with tails. That gene that programs the development of the tail is still there; it doesn't matter if the tail is or not.

However, that's not technically genetic. That's DNA programming. If it was genetic, and acted like specific traits in your body (athleticness, personality, hair color, eye color) then it wouldn't have as likely as a chance to appear in the children. But, looking at bending patterns throughout the series, it doesn't seem to act like either of these... we won't know until some genetics buff analyzes the evidence we have. It's rather confusing.