Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-1409915-20141110130430

AnimeEx wrote: Xanton wrote:

AnimeEx wrote: Yeah a week. and I'm gonna stalk Charmcaster. nevermind I'll just watch

Does Skurd really feed on DNA ? isn't the DNA in the omnitrix computerized data only (how can he feed on that?), which the omnitrix uses to change Ben's DNA structure to that of the Chosen Alien. Maybe skurd just wants the DNA structures to change some of his and for him it's like eating. Yeah you do that. She's stuck on a shelf no going anywhere anyway. Tiny and in a bag no less, unless you take her out. ;)

He said he ate DNA which also confused me considering the DNA is digital but hey, he can make constructs so he's doing something right. Is DNA even edible? Also Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is stored in cells and in Cell Divison, each cell contains it's own copy of the DNA structure. So if Skurd would eat the DNA then the omnitrix, which stores DNA as digitized data, is not a good host sincee he won't be able to eat those data. It also doesn't seem like he's eating Ben's DNA, and if he does so then it would be obvious since he would be eating the cell which contains the DNA.

Well I don't think the staff put Genetics in mind so it's probably different. It was a concept that was handed down by Bandai to create Skurd. It's possible the writers forgot that the DNA of this Omnitrix is digital. The only other way I'd think he could be feeding is if it literally doesn't 1) either matter how it eats it as in maybe he can eat the digital code or 2) that the DNA is still the same as always. Think about it, it still turns Ben into aliens the only difference now is it is digital for storage purposes. Maybe it's more of the active DNA than the dormant. Notice when Ben is normal, Skurd is contained to the watch, but when Ben is an alien he is spread out across his body.