Identity Crisis (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
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Aren't Your Sons a Chimera?
There are lots of cases where twins do not end up as chimeras. If you were a chimeraan, i took some of your blood and we looked at it, we might find cells that were type and blood cells that were typo. They're different genoms. There's one case in which a woman was in need of a kidney transplant, and her sons got tested to see if they were the right type. The hospital came back and saidte thegse aren't your sons just like what ro u're talking about? I i was there. And what had happened was that so her eggs that produced her sons had come from one individual, her blood had originated from the
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