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If you cloned a human egg so you now have two genetically identical eggs and fertilised both with different sperm from the same load - would those two offspring be identical?
More importantly how many sets of tennis should they play!!
But no
https://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask128
Apologies that article needs some paragraphs BADLY!!
Different sperm so no.
Apologies that article needs some paragraphs BADLY!!
It's also not what was asked.
It's incredibly long odds we're here...
Fifth Philosopher's Song
A million million spermatozoa
All of them alive;
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be
Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne—
But the One was Me.
Shame to have ousted your betters thus,
Taking ark while the others remained outside!
Better for all of us, froward Homunculus,
If you’d quietly died!
Aldous Huxley
But it does answer the question.
Twins aren’t clones.
Ooo… let's discus what "identical" means.
Ooo… let's discus what "identical" means.
But no, they wouldn't be identical twins or clones.
Multi post fun.
Post > edit post > get bonus post.
The title got me all excited thinking it was a new ironic Hackney breakfast joint.
Sperm and cloned eggs? Breakfast of champions...
...and only £5.99 with a pint in Wetherspoons.
With dippy soldiers?
For a moment this thread was directly below "50th birthday present ideas" which sufficed to make me smile slightly.