If you get 50% of dna from each parent, and there’s a finite amount of dna in each one, in theory, if you had enough kids (an impossibly large quantity) would your kids eventually be genetically identical to previous kids? Would the possible number of dna combination end eventually?
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In theory neither of you would live long enough to produce two identical children. Also, not just your genes. Each of you are carrying genes of grandparent, great grandparents so on and so on for many generations. We all carry genetic traits that never manifest and we don’t scientifically understand why. Example, you may not have any artistic abilities whatsoever yet you might produce a child who becomes artistically inclined and becomes very talented. Turns out that artistic genetic trait is recessive and maybe your s.o.’s great grandmother was a concert violinist. I read a scientific study recently which studied genetic traits and part of the conclusion is that we are not the soley the genetic result of our parents but rather each parents lineage. This is most often noticed in mental illness.Example, a Brother has bipolar and parents and siblings are fine but wife has a great aunt who was bipolar. The gene was in all but recessibe except for the brother who developed bipolar.
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