The egg develops into a child that is born almost immediately.Įve anticipates that her child will be able to consciously change its genetic code, thus being an infinitely adaptable 'perfect life form' capable of replacing humanity and similar life-forms. Moving to the hospital, she implants this egg in Mariko's womb.

Toshiaki pursues her, and she rapes him in the form of Kiyomi to capture some of his sperm, which she uses to fertilize an egg of her own production. Leaving Asakura's body, she returns to the lab. Eventually, she takes control of Asakura during a conference presentation speech and announces her presence. Forming some of the cells into a body, Eve possesses Toshiaki's assistant Sachiko Asakura and intermittently takes control of Asakura to work upon the cultures. As part of Kiyomi's body, the kidney is also a part of Eve this prepares Mariko to be a suitable host for giving birth to mitochondrial life, as her immune system would otherwise rebel.Įve influences Toshiaki to grow some of Kiyomi's liver cells in his lab in sufficient quantities to provide Eve with an independent body, he thinks that he is doing this as an experiment using different cultures of the liver cells. Eve influences Toshiaki and a doctor to ensure that one of Kiyomi's kidneys is transplanted into the teenage girl Mariko Anzai as an organ donation. Kiyomi's husband is Toshiaki, a research assistant teaching and researching biological science. She causes Kiyomi to crash her car Kiyomi survives but is brain dead.

At the start of the book, Eve is the mitochondria in Kiyomi's body. The conditions Eve has waited for have arrived she has found the perfect host in the body of Kiyomi Nagishima. She can cause certain thoughts to occur to them and also make them undergo spontaneous combustion. humans and similar life) by causing a child to be born that can control its own genetic code.Įve is able to control people's minds and bodies by signaling to the mitochondria in their bodies. The novel's plot supposes that mitochondria, which are inherited through the female line of descent, form the dispersed body of an intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve, which has been waiting throughout history and evolution for the right conditions when mitochondrial life can achieve its true potential and take over from eukaryotic life-forms (i.e. It is thought that they were originally separate organisms, and a symbiotic relationship between them and early cellular life has evolved into their present position as cell organelles with no independent existence (see endosymbiotic theory). Mitochondria are the 'power house' of biological cells. The video games have also been adapted into a manga series. It was later expanded into three video games two that serve as sequels to the novel, along with a spin-off third game. Parasite Eve was adapted into a film and manga series.

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