Can two lesbians have a child genetically in the truest sense?
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Not yet, but scientists are working on it. Scientists have successfully grown eggs out of sperm cells in fish (see article). One day it will be possible for gays and lesbians to have biological children.\n\nhttp://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060206_fish_story.html
449623
Yes, if she is born a hermaphrodite.  It is rare in it's occurrance, but it does happen. To men too! As a fetus we are all female. It just takes the right hormone at the right time to create a male.
952404
yes specially when one of them is homosexual.
14261
it is in most cases.\nthe inheritence if extra 23rd x chromosome leads to a homosexual offspring.\nbut inmany cases it is by will.
64866
The offspring of two humans is human. Until scientists declare that there is a homo superior intead of a homo sapien based on chromosome differences, there can be no other result.
659680
A transexual individual cannot produce a baby as a member of their non-biological gender.  In other words, a male-to-female transexual can't have a baby with a man as a women, and a female-to-male transexual can't have a baby with a women as a man.  However, an individual who is anatomically male but takes female hormones can have a normal, healthy baby with a woman.  A woman who takes male hormones could have a normal healthy baby with a man if she stops taking the hormones before becoming pregnant, but male hormones would probably interfere with pregnancy.\n\nIf I'm understanding this right, your female, and your signficiant other identifies as female, is anatomically male, and has been taking female hormones for years.  I see no reason why she shouldn't be able to get you pregnant, if that's what you both want to do.\n\nBasically, all that the male contributes to a developing embryo is DNA.  And taking female hormones wouldn't have any effect on an individual's DNA.  So your wife's sperm should be perfectly healthy.  If she's taking female hormones while you're trying to concieve it might decrease the changes of conception, but once the egg is fertilized your baby will be fine.\n\nOh, and your child will likely grow up to be healthy than average in at least one respect: he or she will probably learn from a young age that there's not actually anything wrong with being different.  But please don't send him or her to a conservative Catholic school - that would just be asking for trouble :)
663414
No, the number of chromosomes in the two is different so it would not create a baby.
1061755
yes its def possible. you dont have to share the same blood to love each other unconditionally. people who can accept other's children and love and care for them like their very own are few in this world! good for you!
718816
I doubt a woman can give birth through parthenogenesis. It would require significant genetic manipulation which is a form of mutancy in itself. \n\nThe child I think will have an exact replica genetic material as the mother which is human but inhuman in its moral consequences. HOWEVER! The child would be missing half the chromosones needed to create what we deem human. This would have significant mental or physical defects I believe  which would make it not completely human.
858085
Yes and no. \nNot necessarily but I can see how members of the same racial group would have a better understanding of that group's history, culture and traditions. But that isn't to say that any couple willing to adopt would be just as able to learn those traditions to make sure the child knows it's own history.
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Just a clarification-There arent any "true" hermaphrodites in humans-That would indicate that they could both become pregnant *and* impregnate another.  Humans sometimes can have partial external genitalia of both male and female, but do not have both functional testes and functional ovaries.\nAny medical school library would have a great deal of information on this.
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There are a number of scientific studies that do just that. I've linked to Wikipedia which sums up some of them, but the overall conclusion is that sexual orientation is determined in utero and is due to a number of factors, not just genetics.\n\nThe identical twin studies, especially those where one twin was straight and one gay, indicated that there's more going on than genetics.\n\nSimon Levay's study of brain structure indicated that homosexuals have a larger hypothalamus than heterosexuals. There have been other studies showing that gay men think like straight women as the brain activity was observed.\n\nThere's a finger-length study, indicating that women with a certain middle finger length are more likely to be gay.\n\nThere are birth order studies, where straight male children were born first and a gay male child later, suggesting that there may be hormonal influence on sexual orientation.\n\nBut whatever you think, know that it is not chosen. No one would choose to be ostracized, ridiculed, and made to feel a lesser citizen.
33434
yes you can. The reason is because every time you have a child, they all have different combinations of the man and woman's chromosomes in them.
276856
No.  The children will be blessed with their own unique set of DNA, although they will probably look like siblings.
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Both parent were heterozygous
93687
Not if she was bi- prior to you getting married. . . . odds are . . . you never knew . . . . \n\nIf you decide to do it . . . it may ruin your relationship . . . if it is not already ruin . . . because odds are she knows the perfect girl because she is already doing her . . . (Does she have a girl in mind?)\n\nAs for having kids with the other girl . . . that is when they both leave you . . . she collects alimony and child support from you (if you have kids with your wife) and her girlfriend will also collect child support from you.\n\nAnd there is no way out for you . . . because she will not remarry . . . because gay civil unions are illegal.
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The mother and child will have *nearly* identical DNA.  There will be a few mutations because mutations are ubiquitous, but 99.99+% of their DNA will be the same.