what happens if you replace the DNA of a stork's egg with human DNA to see if a human baby results.?

Question

The structure of an organism is determined by the genome that the egg contains.
what if a friend challenges you and suggests that you replace the DNA of a stork’s egg with human DNA to see if a human baby results. How would you answer him?

Answer 1

Tell him that in trying to replace the DNA in a stork's egg, he would destroy the egg. There would be no human baby nor would there be a baby stork.

Answer 2

Oops! somebody needs serious mol bio and genetics fundaes...So here is the point: Only egg contains the necessary mRNA needed to produce proteins for initial activity in fertilized egg. Without those proteins, how will the human DNA replicate and the egg divide? That means without human mRNA , human DNA injected in any egg cannot take the path of zygotic development. The machinery to use the new DNA has to be present in the egg. You may expect some genes to get translated ( the ones that share ancestral homology), but never all.

Answer 3

Actually, I believe both answers given to you are incorrect. All zygotes are essentially the same, and in fact, most animal embryos are pretty much the same for a given period of time early in development.

So if you were to take a single stork zygote, remove the haploid DNA (which includes DNA from both the mother and father) and replace it with human haploid DNA (from both a mother and a father), as long as the cell is implanted in the mother's uterus, it should develop into a completely normal human being, in theory.

This is not to say that this would work, but in theory it would.

Answer 4

You would completely destroy the egg itself.
WHY: The human DNA has different proteins needed for a HUMAN'S body functions. If the DNA was replaced, the egg will die because the incorrect proteins will clash with the need of the cell. No embryo will develop. The cells will cease to function. Genetics is a tricky thing ;).