Do you see yourself in your biological children? (wife, girls, school)
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Me neither. I learn something new everyday here on CD. Now that DNA is more common, I suspect they'll discover it's not as rare as once believed. The concluding paragraph raised the question of people being imprisoned and released from prison based on DNA. I don't think that would be an issue for people are imprisoned because the DNA would match one of their DNAs. But I can see how a guilty person could get released due to this. If it's truly rare, I think society can take the risk of having an occasional guilty person set free since there isn't a great chance of innocent people being sent to prison due to this.
Me neither. I learn something new everyday here on CD. Now that DNA is more common, I suspect they'll discover it's not as rare as once believed. The concluding paragraph raised the question of people being imprisoned and released from prison based on DNA. I don't think that would be an issue for people are imprisoned because the DNA would match one of their DNAs. But I can see how a guilty person could get released due to this. If it's truly rare, I think society can take the risk of having an occasional guilty person set free since there isn't a great chance of innocent people being sent to prison due to this.
Actually, I recently read a novel where the bad guy was a chimera due to a bone marrow transplant. In that situation, blood left at a crime scene would match the DNA of the donor, not the recipient. Donor could get blamed for a crime perpetrated by the recipient.
I wonder whether the children of the women in your link still bore a resemblance to the mothers who birthed them. You would expect some family resemblance, since the birth and genetic mothers were sisters.
Actually, I recently read a novel where the bad guy was a chimera due to a bone marrow transplant. In that situation, blood left at a crime scene would match the DNA of the donor, not the recipient. Donor could get blamed for a crime perpetrated by the recipient.
Good point! I was thinking about natural chimera. In the case of a male that absorbed a male twin whose DNA was retained in the testicles, the sperm would be the absorbed twin's DNA, which wouldn't exist anywhere else in the world for an innocent person to be imprisoned.
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Originally Posted by suzy_q2010
I wonder whether the children of the women in your link still bore a resemblance to the mothers who birthed them. You would expect some family resemblance, since the birth and genetic mothers were sisters.
There would likely be a family resemblance because they are twins. She basically gave birth to her nieces and nephews. If the mother is "a me," she wouldn't look like any of them, but they'd look like other members of the family. That mother was darn lucky a prosecutor read the article about the American women, and that the prosecutor had the morals and ethics to reveal that information.
Do you see in your biological children a spitting image of yourself? Or do your biological children remind you of your sibling?
In high school, my best friend had a sister who passed away young. Now, that friend has a daughter who looks so much like the late sister when she was 12. Is this type of physical resemblance common?
Yes. I see myself in my biological son. Green eyes. Passionate personality. Taste in music. Intense personality. Hair color and same nose. Talent in writing.
I also see myself in my daughter who was adopted. Interest in politics and sociology. Same sense of humor. Interest in clothes and interior decorating. Perfectionist. Good cook.
All of those can be explained by nurture.
These cant - same shaped legs - slim but muscular. Good at dance. Same shaped hands. A beauty mark in the same place. Love of the same type of foods. Low tolerance for hot climates.
It makes me think that the children who we raise and love, are meant to be ours.
My children are 1/2 Asian and 1/2 German-American mutt. Personally, I think they're beautiful but they look NOTHING like me. I don't know what happened to the Asian genes but it seems to have skipped them. People finally stopped asking if I was the nanny when they were around 2 yrs old.
However, my son is exactly like my brother personality-wise while my daughter exhibits a lot of the quirkiness of a cousin and an aunt of mine. I kid that I am scr*wed raising my brother & cousin.
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but they look NOTHING like me. I don't know what happened to the Asian genes but it seems to have skipped them. People finally stopped asking if I was the nanny when they were around 2 yrs old. 
