The biology of the Goa'uld is complex to describe, mostly because of the intervening with the human or unas subjects. The symbiotes are born from a parent called the Goa'uld Queen. There are actually several known queens and each one capable of giving birth to thousands of symbiotes. The symbiote gets the genetic memory of the queen, who thereby imprints their way of life in a very effective way. The Queen is capable of self-fertilization, and usually will try to acquire the DNA of the species the symbiotes are intended to take as hosts, though it is not necessary, as the "wild" Goa'uld of the Goa'uld homeworld took human hosts without their queen having access to human DNA.(SG1: "Crossroads", "The First Ones") Egeria was a Goa'uld queen who turned against the majority of the Goa'uld in is