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==[[File:scanner.gif|64px]][[File:Medcom.gif|64px]][[File:Clone.gif|64px]] Cloning==

Cloning is a process of reviving someone who has died. For a cloning process we need a dead body and cloning equipment, which can be found in your Cloning Room.

# First of all, you have to know that for all things cloning, the [[Chief Medical Officer]] has a final say. He is your boss on this side of Genetics. If he tells you to clone someone and not some other guy, you do it. The only person with higher say than him on these matters is the Captain.

# On to the specifics! First of all, '''grab or pull''' a body and stuff it '''into the [[DNA Scanner]] and close the door'''. If you want to remove someone from a Scanner, click on it to open the door. Unless the Scanner is locked, anyone inside is going to pop right out.

# After the pod is empty, feel free to '''clone your next patient'''.

# If R&D has been doing their job, they might upgrade the cloner to a level where it can '''autoprocess'''. If this is the case, you only have to press the Autoprocess button on top of the window, and the cloner will scan and clone automatically. This is useful to process a large pile of bodies quickly. Scan them one at a time, and autoprocess will do the rest.  

===[[File:Husk.png|64px|OH GOD OH FUCK]] Hark! A Husk!===

So you've come across a [[husk]] (a grey corpse) on your floor, which means you can't clone that poor sod without upgrades. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped!

# First off, make sure it's a husk. Throw the body into a DNA Scanner, if it says ''Subject no longer contains the fundamental materials required to create a living clone'', then you have yourself a husk (if your DNA Scanner had been [[Guide_to_advanced_construction#DNA_Scanner|updated]] to the max by the Scientists, you could clone the husk right now. So if you know they've been doing their R&D, ask them).

# Take the body down to [[Surgery]].

# Pester the CMO or a Medical Doctor to extract the brain, or do it yourself.

# Put the brain in the DNA scanner like you would a body.

If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn.

===Helping the Headless===

Sometimes you'll find a corpse whose head is separated from their body. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, this is not a problem!

#If you have a head or a brain, just chuck it into the cloner as normal. This may require the DNA scanner to be upgraded though. To clone a head or brain you must throw it into the DNA Scanner (or walk into the DNA scanner and drop the head/brain). Then click the cloner to close it.  

#If you don't have the head, but you have the body, not all hope is lost: take a blood sample and give it to the botanist to make a replica pod, and the deceased guy will be reborn as a podperson!

#If you have neither, he's dead for good.

===Cloning Plasmamen===

If the patient is a [[plasmaman]], cloning them will be complicated by the fact that the naked patient will burn in the station's atmosphere. This can be dealt with by using showers to keep the patient from catching fire, then dressing them in a plasma envirosuit.

# Turn on the shower near cloning pod.

# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under the shower and wait for them to dress up.

If the patient is a naked or beheaded plasmaman, follow these additional steps:

# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and feed them a few [[Guide_to_chemistry#Salbutamol|Salbutamol]] pills (if available), or if desperate, keep a syringe of [[Guide_to_chemistry#Perfluorodecalin|Perfluorodecalin]] ready in case you need it. Plasmamen suffocate if they don't have plasma to breathe!

# Yell at [[Supply_crates|cargo]] to order plasmaman supplies. In the meantime, bug Engineering/Atmos for a filled plasma tank.

===Empty Cloning===

Cloners have the option to "Empty Clone" a record, creating a mindless replica of a person. To complement this function, cloners can do Body-Only scans, which can only be used to create empty clones but not real clones, and bypass the sentience restrictions that ordinary scans have. These body-only entries can be deleted without requiring access.

===Cloning Errors===

{| class="wikitable"

| Draw a blood sample and ask [[Botany]] to clone them with the [[Guide_to_hydroponics#Replica_Pod_Cloning|Replica Pod]] plant. Can't draw blood either? Your patient is out of luck.

|}

Keep in mind that patching up a corpse with Synthflesh and then reviving it with Strange Reagent bypasses a lot of these issues.

== [[File:scanner.gif|64px]][[File:Medcom.gif|64px]] DNA Modification ==

Your boss here is no longer the [[Chief Medical Officer]]. Do not feel forced to listen to their orders, except when it comes to cloning. Regarding the genetic research, listen to the direct orders of the [[Research Director]] as well as the [[Captain]]. For security reasons allow NO ONE ELSE in the Genetics Lab. Simple as that.

Now, let's get you acquainted with the DNA Scanner Access Console. It has a few things of note. First you need to learn some terms:

===Unique Enzymes===

* Unique Enzymes (UE) = '''Your name'''. Even if you mutate the UE it will have no effect on the name. What you can do however, is to transfer UE from one person to another, copying their name.  

===Unique Identifiers===

* Unique Identifiers (UI) = '''Your cosmetic details''' - eye color, skin color, hair style, hair color and gender. <br>

In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Unique Identifiers". This tab can be used to copy both UE and UI between people.  

*Click "Save to Buffer" to save a person's UE + UI to the console. '''You cannot save mutations this way'''.  

*Click "Occupant: Delayed" to copy the genes of the buffer to the next person who steps into the scanner and closes it (such as yourself).

*Click "Injector" to print a DNA injector containing the genes of the saved buffer. Injecting this into a person will transfer the UE, UI or UE+UI to that person. Unlike mutation [[#Activators_and_Injectors|injectors and activators]] however, these DNA injectors are not permanent, and will only last for a short while after injected.  

===Structural Enzymes===

*Structural Enzymes/Genetic Sequence = '''Your mutations'''. They contain data relevant to your genetic structure. This governs your race and mutations. The term "Structural Enzymes" is no longer used by the DNA scanner access console since it was replaced with "Genetic Sequence" (which is the same thing), but the term may still show up elsewhere.  

===Genetic Sequencer===

In the DNA scanner access console there is a tab named "Genetic Sequencer". Here you will alter genes to find mutations. There are '''four''' types of blocks: A, T, C and G. Each pair of letters in the boxes are connected. '''A goes with T, and G goes with C.''' Order does not matter. Each pair has a correct combination of "AT, TG, CG or GC" that needs to be filled. If you see a an unmodified pair be X-T it means the right combination of that pair is A-T. When all 16 pairs have the right blocks, the mutation will activate and you will be able to store it. Monkeys can only have the "monkified" mutation unless [[#Humanizing_a_Monkey|humanized]]. Once you have found the name of a mutation, that mutation will be permanently identified in all DNA scanner access consoles. <br>

One might want to disable the monkey mutation by replacing one of the healthy pairs with an X. How to do all this will be detailed in the guide below.<br>

====[[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] Genetic Sequence Scanner====

The more difficult mutations will have a lot of unknown (X-X) pairs. You cannot just randomly enter A-T, since it's predetermined what it's supposed to be. Knowing all this, you could whip out the genetic sequence scanner [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] from your pocket. If you're looking for the correct pairs of mutation 39, scan people until you find a person with mutation 39. Then use the scanner in your hand for a menu to pop up. In the menu, select "mutation 39". This gives you a reading which will likely give you more information about which pairs you need to finish mutation 39.

You can use your Genetic Sequence Scanner [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]] on a DNA scanner access console to permanently sync the item, which makes you see the names of discovered mutations when scanning people with it.<br>

More info about some of the other tabs can be found in the [[#Guide_to_finding_and_using_mutations|guide further below]].

=== [[File:Hulk.png|64px]] Mutations and Their Consequences ===

Before we start splicing, you must know what possible monstrosities can be done to a human.

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! style='background-color:#3BB9FF; width:10%'|Mutation Name

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!Strength {{anchor|Strength}}

|No indicators.

|style='color:#0000ff'|"You feel strong."

|30

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'''IMPORTANT: There's also ''1 special block'' which contains the info whether the subject is a ''human or a monkey''!'''

===Guide to finding and using mutations===

This guide here shows you step by step how to find the powers from the mysterious blocks!

Genes are distorted and twisted by shooting them with radiation. This can be done with the DNA Scanner Access Console and the computer in your lab.

====First Steps====

This guide will start with using a monkey, because they're in the pen for a reason.

* Start by taking a '''monkey''' from the pen.

* Check the '''console''' next to it, you'll see a bunch of option and information. Find ''Genetic Sequence''.

All mutations are randomized every round.

====Humanizing a Monkey====

Always humanize your monkey first, or their powers won't work.

# [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|Mutadone]] will also clear the "monkified" mutation from monkeys, instantly turning them human. Use a dropper set to 1u to squirt dissolved [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into the eyes of monkeys to humanize them without needing any machinery.

# If for any reason you got yourself some bad mutations and have no one to remove them, grab the [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] pill bottle in your lab. You usually have several 50u pills available. If you want to make a pill last, dissolve a pill by pouring a tiny amount of water into a beaker (by using the beaker on a sink once), then drop a pill of [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into it and take a sip. It should instantly clear all your mutations, unless your mutations have [[#Chromosome_21|reinforcement chromosomes]].

====Manifesting Mutations====

Back to business! Now we'll try to make a mutation show itself to us:

# Find a mutation that has broken pairs.

# Start filling in the X's. This is fairly easy since most of them are connected to an A, T, G or C. So X-T would be A-T.

# If there's more than 2 double X-pairs, consider using the JOKER or going out and scanning some people to see if they have the missing pairs.

# If it didn't work, you may have messed up somewhere. Double check and also make sure they're not still a monkey. If all else fails, move on to another mutation or scramble their DNA.

====Scramble DNA====

Clicking the Scramble DNA tab will blast the subject with radiation, and randomize which discoverable mutations it has.

====[[File:Dnainjector.png]] Activators and Injectors====

After manifesting a mutation in the Genetic Sequencer tab, hit store to save it to the "Mutations" tab. You can print activators and injectors from both the Genetic Sequencer and the Mutations tab.

*'''Activators:''' An activator will permanently activate the specific mutation in a person who already has the mutation dormant as shown with a Genetic Sequence Scanner [[File:Gene_scanner.gif]]. For example, since all humans have the "monkified" mutation dormant in them, a "monkified" activator will always work on humans. Using an activator will not increase genetic instability. Used activators can be recycled into the DNA scanner access console to produce chromosomes.

*'''Injectors:''' An injector will permanently manifest a mutation in a person, regardless of if that person has that mutation dormant or not. This may cause genetic instability.

The DNA Scanner Access Console takes time to recharge after producing an activator or injector. The activator has a much shorter cooldown.

====[[File:Dnainjector.png]] Advanced Injectors====

After discovering one or more mutations, you have the option to create advanced injectors. Advanced injectors will let you save multiple mutations in a single injector. The amount of mutations in a single "save" is limited to 50 instability or 10 mutations. Unlike activators or ordinary injectors, these can be named anything you want. To create an advanced injector, do the following:

#Go to the "Adv. Injectors" tab. Click "New Selection" and choose a name to create a new slot for mutations to be stored in.

#Go to the "Genetic Sequencer" tab and click on a discovered and active mutation. You can not use mutations from the "Mutations" tab.

#Click "The Adv. Injector" button near the bottom. Select the name of the slot you made in step 1. Repeat with any other mutations you wish to save to the same slot.

#Go back to the "Adv. Injectors". Click Print Advanced Injector. You will print an injector with the name you chose.

====Against the Radiation====

All that radiation pulsing is not healthy.

* At some point it may be a good idea to visit '''[[Chemistry]]''' and order some '''[[Guide_to_chemistry#Potassium_Iodide|Potassium Iodide]]''' for your genetic testing. It's a very useful chem, as it lowers radiation levels quickly.

*'''[[Guide_to_chemistry#Pentetic_Acid|Pentetic Acid]]''' is another good choice, as it works very well against both rads and toxin damage.

====Genetic Instability====

When you manifest a power, you may get a message like "It feels like your skin is moving." This is telling you that your genetic instability has gotten higher, and you'll need to be careful not to add too many more powers. All humans can withstand up to '''99 genetic instability''' before they start to bubble and melt. 100 instability would be too much. Negative mutations generally don't give you instability, but powers do. As a rule of thumb, the stronger the power, the more instability it gives. Choose your powers wisely. You can refer to the previous table as a guide on how much instability each mutation gives.

====Chromosome 21====

Every time you successfully use an ACTIVATOR on another person, the activator becomes filled with genetic data. Recycle/use it on your DNA console to gain a random chromosome from it. The chromosome either appears as an item on top of the DNA console, or it gets stored in its "mutations" tab. Up to 5 chromosomes can be stored in a single DNA console. Clicking on the last chromosome in the ''mutations'' tab will eject it into its physical form. Physical chromosomes can only be used by inserting them into a DNA console.

* '''Energetic''': Reduces cooldown on action based mutations.

* '''Reinforcement''': Makes the mutation immune to mutadone.  

Chromosomes aren't supposed to be addable to mutations that won't benefit from them. For example, you can't use the energetic chromosome on the monkey mutation.

====What to do with your powers====

* Save your power buffer in a disk, as a backup. There's always the risk of someone overwriting/deleting them.

* Because injectors exist, geneticists are often asked for powers by randoms. Use your best judgement to decide who gets powers and not, because nothing gets the station down like a herd of assistants with Hulk. Be ready to say "no" a lot.

* Enjoy being the peak of human evolution! Use your powers for the greater good. Remember that hulks are nonhuman to the AI and that when security can't stun someone they'll pass directly to lethals.

== The Gene Genie - The Traitorous Geneticist ==

Sorry for the bad chapter title. I wanted to use that for a very long time.

'''Congratulations. If you read everything is this guide, you should now be a full-fledged Geneticist.'''

=== Rev head ===

Simple. Flash colleagues. If the RD or the CMO come check on you, say you have a good set of powers, but the replicator is offline. Ask for him / her to strip and get in the Scanner. Lock him/her in, have your way with them, they can't leave nor can they talk. Let them enjoy their slow, painful death. If someone wants to clone the captain, that too is pretty simple. Just don't do it. As soon as the guy leaves, stuff the captain in a locker, take his stuff and call it a day. You could also eat until you get fat, transform people into monkeys and eat them. Fun for all. <br>

Another fun strategy is, if you managed to kill a head of staff, to copy their identity with a DNA scanner and apply it to yourself; impersonating a head of staff during a revolution is easy since they are usually exempt from implanting.

=== Traitor ===

Depends on your objective. If it's a hard one, like stealing the AI... well, you're fucked. Keep working on those powers! As soon as you have Hulk + TK, go for it as you wish. No tips here.

Also, never forget identity theft. Since you can take someone's complete identity, including looks, you can have some fun with that.

=== Wizard ===

Well... Stealth wizard? Several things you can do, mostly involving UI+UE stuff. Not worth it, really. One thing you can do is taking identities and belongings, but you have to expose yourself to mess with the console. Your choice.

=== Changeling ===

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