Idk if this makes sense.

Obviously not via sexual reproduction but could a person’s genetic parents be of the same sex and that person be genetically indistinguishable from the rest of the population?

  • Fleur_@lemm.eeOP
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    23 days ago

    Yeah cloning isn’t really what I’m asking about. Interested in knowing if you can make offspring from two same sex parent cells that have similar genetic makeup/diversity to offspring with 2 different sex parent cells

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      23 days ago

      I know—I’m just saying that any other theoretical solution would always be worse than cloning, because you’d lose genetic information.

      Edit: See Isodisomy for details.

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        22 days ago

        Under ideal conditions, I don’t see how this would lose any more genetic information than sexual reproduction with parents of the opposite sex. The problems you’re referring to seem to be more of an issue if two gametes were supplied by a single parent.