Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4772791-20160123002637/@comment-26879545-20160219204742

Killer kev wrote:

I have a question of my own, shouldn't supernatural creatures in general be genetic chimeras? Werewolves for example, do they have wolf DNA and human DNA? Does that count as two sets of DNA? Uhm... I would say no. Assuming the werewolf is a born werewolf, like the Hales, then it would be a dominant supernatural gene passed on by the parents.

If the werewolf is a bitten one, then it's likely the venom (I'm going to assume the bite works like in other werewolf lore where the bite injects a sort of venom that changes the host) overwrites pieces of the host's DNA, rather than injecting the Alpha's DNA sequence into them and causing them to have their normal DNA as well as a foreign strand that replicates itself and gives them access to werewolf abilities.