on heroes what is that symbol?

Question

the symbol has appeared on everything from hiros sword nikkies back and on the seekers computer not to mention the black dudes chain what does it mean??

Answer 1

Oho, nobody has figured it out yet? Well, let me clue you in. It is part of a DNA strand. If you look at it, it looks like a long, slender S; that is part of the helical shape of DNA, seen from the side. There are three short pieces that come off the sides. These are ‘bases’ or nucleotides, where they connect to matching bases on the other strand that is usually there. (zipping and unzipping, like a zipper, in the process of copying itself.)

I guess I shouldn’t have expected anybody to recognize this, except maybe some geneticists and molecular biologists, who probably don’t watch the show.

So this is a piece of DNA, maybe in the process of reproducing, or maybe just a free-floating piece. The company that is tracing the heroes may be trying to decode their DNA to copy their powers, or maybe they gave them their powers by accident and need to get a sample in order to understand the process.

Peter’s ability to copy others’ powers seems to be an ability to copy their DNA. (I’m not sure whether he has all their abilities, all the time, or only when he needs them. In the latter case, he only temporarily copies their DNA.)

In Sylar’s case, he actually eats and absorbs the brains of the people he kills (see one of my previous answers, about what Sylar does with the brains.) He digests the brains and absorbs the DNA. So Sylar seems to have all the powers, all the time. I’m a little surprised that Peter is the one that is supposed to explode, not him, from all the power he’s going to wind up containing.

The DNA strand that we have been shown may be connected to a particular power. We don’t know yet. It could wind up that once Peter copies that particular DNA sequence that he will turn explosive. We just don’t know yet.

5 MAR 07, 0123 hrs, GMT.

Answer 2

Nobody knows yet, that's the point.