Awordofinterest t1_j6zco7v wrote on February 2, 2023 at 11:21 PM

After reading this, I wondered the difference between natural birth and "Test tube" babies. (In comparison to cuttings to seedlings) Expecting to see a big difference.

Apparently it's only a 5-10% difference in gene differences, between natural birth and IVF treatment babies. Which is a large percentage... but not really.

Really off topic from your thread, and I apologise for that. But I found it interesting and hope others do to.

Also be interested if anyone in the know can chime in on this.

InaMellophoneMood t1_j6zhp36 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 11:57 PM

IVF is still sexual reproduction, not cloning. There might be some odd pressures in the IVF process that reduces the viability of some genes, but you'd still expect 50% from one parent and 50% from the other.

If you're doing cloning, it gets weird. You'd expect only mitochondrial DNA from the surrogate mother. If you're cloning someone inside of themselves, you'd get a full 100% match, but otherwise you'd expect a 0% chromosomal match