Do Time Lords have 3 brains?

In the Peter Capaldi 12th Doctor episode "The Magician's Apprentice," Missy refers to her brainstem in the singular, implying she just has one brain, but then, in the episode "Extremis," when the 12th Doctor is tasked with executing Missy, we're told the fancy Time Lord-killing gizmo will "stop both hearts, and all ...
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How many brains do Time Lords have?

Physiological differences from humans include two hearts which normally beat at 170 beats per minute, three brain stems [S10E06 Extremis], an internal body temperature of 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) and a "respiratory bypass system" that allows them to survive strangulation.
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Why do Time Lords have 2 hearts?

A binary vascular system was a type of circulatory system in which the blood vessels led to two hearts. Time Lords had a binary vascular system.
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Can Time Lords have babies?

The Fourth Doctor's companion Leela married a Gallifreyan Time Lord, and in non-screen materials they had the first natural-born child on Gallifrey in millennia.
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Is every Gallifreyan a Time Lord?

Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord. The problem is that Timelords are a ruling class essentially they aren't technically a separate species. When people say Gallifreyans they talk about the Humanoid species of the planet.
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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Are there black Time Lords?

Doctor Who unveils its first black portrayal of the Time Lord in show's 57-year history... as show boss CONFIRMS actress Jo Martin is 'definitively the Doctor' Doctor Who has introduced its first black portrayal of the titular Time Lord in its illustrious 57-year history.
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Is the DR a Time Lord?

The Doctor, it transpires, was the very first of the Time Lords as we know them, exhibiting the ability to regenerate forms indefinitely. Her DNA was subsequently spliced into other Time Lords, but through genetic engineering, their number of regenerations was capped at 12.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Do all Gallifreyans have two hearts?

This question seems to be based on the idea that if the Timeless Child is from some other race, and we know that Gallifreyans/Time Lords have two hearts, it's therefore a coincidence that the Timeless Child/Doctor has two hearts too. But it's really not. There are a multitude of possibilities here, so take your pick.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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What did the Doctor whisper to River Song?

On The Wedding of River Song he whispers, "Look into my eye." and then lies and says that he just told her his name. That's when River realized that what he whispered to her when they first met was his name.
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How long can a Time Lord live?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Are Time Lords sterile?

Rassilon led a revolution against the Pythia, eventually causing her to kill herself and send her followers to the planet Karn. However, before she died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility.
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Are all Time Lords immortal?

He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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How did Clara's mother died?

While the circumstances of Ellie's death are never revealed, her death date of 5 March 2005 coincides with the events of Rose, when the Ninth Doctor and Rose faced the Nestene Consciousness. It is therefore possible that Ellie was killed in the Auton invasion.
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Does Clara have her own TARDIS?

Clara gets her own TARDIS and her own companion. She gets to adventure through the cosmos.
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How did Clara get the Doctor's number?

The woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number is brought up in "Deep Breath". The Twelfth Doctor remarks it seems as if someone is trying to bring the Doctor and Clara together. The episode "Death in Heaven" reveals it was the Master (as Missy) who gave the number to Clara.
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What race is the timeless child?

The Timeless Child's species were a largely unknown species from another universe or dimension, being, according to the Spy Master, the Doctor's original species as the Timeless Child.
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Is the Doctor actually Gallifreyan?

The Doctor, as explained at length by the Master, was not Gallifreyan at all. She was discovered as a child on another planet by a Gallifreyan scientist called Tecteun (Seylan Baxter), who – after bringing her back home – extracted her power to regenerate in order to form the basis of Time Lord society.
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How long is a Gallifreyan year?

So 237 Gallifreyan Years is equal to 209 Earth Years. This means one Earth Year is 1.133971291866 Gallifreyan Years.
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How many types of Gallifreyan are there?

There are three known forms of written Gallifreyan; Old High Gallifreyan, Modern Gallifreyan and Circular Gallifreyan. Old High Gallifreyan, the original ancient language of the Time Lords, was declared by the 11th Doctor to possess the power to “raise empires and destroy gods”.
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How are Time Lords born?

Time Lords aren't born, they're crafted. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism, a tear in the fabric of time and space. To look upon it is to see eternity.
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How do Gallifreyans become Time Lords?

The majority of Time Lords were genetically Gallifreyans, since they arose from the species; they considered themselves to be the elite of Gallifreyan society, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) as only a select few bloodlines had been granted the privilege of becoming Time Lords when Rassilon originally unveiled the Eye ...
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