To: Graybeard58
I do hope that they are checking at least some of these people to make sure that they aren't chimeras. In rare cases, fraternal twins fuse to form a single child that has two different genetic codes. At least two women were told that they weren't the genetic mother of children that they gave birth to because their reproductive organs were genetically different than what was found in their blood. That suggests that men could also produce semen with a different genetic code than the dominant code in their blood unless they are testing semen and semen or blood and blood. Yes, freaky but true.
Note that I am not claiming that this particular man is really guilty. I'm simply saying that the guilty could slip through this way.
To: Question_Assumptions
Please cite a reference for this.
9 posted on
08/04/2005 12:32:43 PM PDT by
Kirkwood
To: Question_Assumptions; Kirkwood
Question_Assumptions wrote:
I do hope that they are checking at least some of these people to make sure that they aren't chimeras. Question_Assumptions has been watching too much CSI.
18 posted on
08/04/2005 1:17:20 PM PDT by
MRMEAN
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