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Originally Posted by karice67
Trust me, other than identical twins, siblings DO NOT have identical genetic makeup - my uni major was in Genetics, so don't even try to convince me otherwise. There is no way that you can inherit ALL the DNA from both your parents because that would give you twice the amount of DNA that a normal human has and you'd die in the early stages of development. Try reading this. |
I worded my post incorrectly. I meant that siblings still have the same pool of genes, with different ones activated in the individual. I'm not a bio major so I'm sure I don't know as much as you but I did not mean to suggest each sibling possesses 100% of their parents DNA, rather I meant to say they are still selected from the same greater pool. I thought you were saying that a child could inherit 100% of their genetic makeup from one parent or the other, when in reality this cannot be true. But that's not what you meant so disregard that.