Wired Magazine is running a story on its site with an interesting side article.
It states that scientist have made it possible for two mice to have genetically related children. Two MALE mice that is.
My freshmen or sophomore year at Tech I soo called this. I said that using cloning techniques, it will eventually be possible to two men to have a child faux-biologically.
I mean the difference between a male and a female is just ONE chromosome. And men carry BOTH the x AND the y.
It's basic biology. Women provide the egg, which provides an x, and the man provides the sperm, which could be either an x or a y. 50/50 chance. Women provide no determiner in the gender of the child. It's all determined by which sperm fertilizes the egg.
Knowing this, I was able to foresee this eventual result.
Now this is not to say that it won't eventually be possible for two WOMEN to have a genetically related child. In fact, I believe it definitely WILL using the SAME process, just coxing the stem cell to become a sperm cell.
This would be MUCH harder though, and could only result in a female child.
That is, unless at least one of the women doesn’t have an obscure genetic gender condition. (I forget the title, but it results in a YXX rather than XX.) In which case the parent wouldn't be 100% female to begin with.
Details & Science aside,
I soo totally called this one. Ha ha. :-p
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Yarf! *Chews on rawhide*
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