just wondering if anyone's ever heard of this. i've heard it's possible, but it costs a fortune, and it's almost guaranteed the baby would be a girl.
2006-10-09 07:38:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
No, this can't be done. Pathogenic embryos- ones that have all their chromosomes from maternal origin as well as andregenotes-ones that have all their chromosomes from paternal origin- are both developmentally incompetent and will not develop to term as a baby. They have tried this in many species and it has never worked. You can make embryos to the blastocyst stage, but farther than that and they begin to develop abnormally or arrest and die. You could theoretically take two eggs, one from each woman, fertilize them both, and then take the embryos and fuse them together to create a chimeric embryo, which would supposedly develop. The failure rate for this kind of procedure is very high- only about 1-35% of chimeras end up producing live offspring. Another possibility is that you take the two eggs, take the nucleus out of one of them and put in the other egg's nucleus and then fertilize it- that way you would have the mitochondrial DNA from the one egg and the chromosomal DNA from the other, and thus your baby would have a baby that had both mother's DNA.
2006-10-09 07:54:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. Actually there is the theory that 2 eggs from the same mother could be spliced together and would create, for all intents and purposes a clone of the parent donor, but it's never been done.
If, in your supposition, the two eggs from different women were able to be used for this process the result would ALWAYS be female, males are the only ones that carry the needed chromosome to create a male.
2006-10-09 07:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has been a successful case of this performed on mice, but I don't think that the research has progressed to humans.
As a note, if offspring were created from two mothers, the child would be a girl. This is GUARANTEED, not ALMOST GUARANTEED. Females don't have a Y chromosome, so a pair would be incapapable of making a boy.
2006-10-09 08:19:18 · answer #3 · answered by knightofsappho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it may be possible. Basically the DNA carrying nucleus is removed from one egg and put inside the the body of a sperm. The remaining egg is then fertilized with it and it is implanted into the uterus of one of the women.
However, I'm not sure if the procedure has been perfected or if it has any reasonable chance of success.
2006-10-09 09:20:22 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Hatter 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about mixing two eggs together.. I do know that you can inseminate your egg into your partners body and then she can carry the baby and her characteristic would come out too.... and I don't know about the guarantee being a girl.
2006-10-09 07:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that like saying that you're going to develop a chicken out of scrambled eggs?
2006-10-09 19:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by caitlintgsd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and it's almost guaranteed the baby would be a girl. WELL DUH....since the male decides the sex of the baby...I would think that would be a yes...as far as the other? Well, I guess anything is possible...
2006-10-09 07:41:05 · answer #7 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No its another gay urban legend. Completely untrue. It hasn't even been done with animals eggs.
2006-10-10 17:23:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking of omelets, I'll take a bacon and cheese omelet with a side a sausage and scrapple.
2006-10-09 08:42:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no.sorry but it's impossible.
you couldn't fuse the two eggs without ruining the reproductive propertys.
2006-10-09 07:44:27 · answer #10 · answered by roachbandit 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋