“As to when my daughter began to exist with a COMPLETE human genome - that was at conception. As to when those unique human DNA sequences were formed - days before conception for my half - decades before conception for my wife’s half.”
OK. Great! We agree! (BTW - congratulations)
“You said “When the sperm fertilized the egg - they both lose the DNA identity of their hosts, and a new DNA code is formed.” That is incorrect.”
OK - clumsy as I am, I am trying to make the point that at fertilization a new organism has formed. It has become it’s own life with it’s own fingerprint that is not “the same as” the fingerprint of either contributing parent. It then begins the stages of development of a human person.
By “identity” - what I am referring to is the ability to identify any huuman being by their dna fingerprint...or profile.
“DNA sequences are mixed between parental chromosomes and only HALF ends up in the resulting cells”
OK - Gotchya
“When eggs are formed (women do this while still unborn) those eggs lose “the DNA identity of their host”, the DNA sequences are mixed between parental chromosomes and only HALF ends up in the resulting cell.”
OK - Got that
“Conception DOES NOT result in “a new DNA code” being “formed”. Conception results in two different unique DNA sequences (one a couple days old, the other a couple decades or more old) coming into physical proximity within the same cell.”
ok - so like you said earlier - a complete human genome has been formed.
“Nothing special has to happen to the DNA for life to begin at conception - let alone ‘a new DNA code being formed’.”
hmmm....not sure what you mean by nothing special. The combination of the 2 cells that produces new life is quite special indeed. Just wait till sweet baby girl wraps daddy around her finger!
Yes, conception is the first stage of development of a new human person.
And yes, conception is very very special - but nothing particularly special happens to the DNA.
DNA is just a recipe for how to make useful molecular machines and when and where to make them so that a human being forms and begins to grow.
My little daughter has already mixed up the chromosomes she got from me with the ones she got from my beloved wife to make the unique and new DNA sequence she will contribute to any grandchild she ever gives me. THAT was when the new DNA sequence was formed - several decades before she will ever conceive a child.
My second point is that nothing special HAS TO happen to the DNA at conception in order for conception to be the first stage of development of a new human life; and to be very very special.