I have a child, obviously if.I had a child before or after that child with the same woman each one would be complety unique physically and personality.
But I always wondered, since only 1 sperm makes the egg, does each sperm in that ejaculation have its own unique traits in the type of person that will come out?
Each time I jerked off is each of those a group of unique traits?
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A sperm is not a person but it and an egg have the potential to produce a person.
But the general idea is correct each sperm have a unique combination of DNA. The DNA of each of your chromosome pairs are mixed and the result is that each sperm have a unique combination of the genes on the chromosome from your mother and your father plus some mutation.
That is for all chromosomes except the sex chromosome. Males have XY sex chromosomes and they are not the same size so you can just mix them.
Theoretical two sperms could have the same combination but the likelihood is so low so that it likely never has happened once on earth. The possible number of way chromosomes can be mixed is so high that it likely never happen exactly the same way. It is a bit like how there is more way you can order a deck of cards then there are atoms on earth.
That is if sperm have been produced the same way with the mixing of the chromosome.
Even if the DNA is identical the person that is produced is not. The exact environment in the uterus and random effect still results in different person-. Identical twins have identical DNA with the exception fo a few mutations and developed in an identical environment in the uterus but are not the same.
So DNA is a large part of a person but random effects whey we develop, the returns environment before birth, and the surroundings later will also shape the person.
Clarification question: are you accepting anti-religious or pro-choice or fap-positive replies?
Each one carries its own randomly selected collection of your genes, so yes. However, even the same sperm-egg combination (zygote) can result in very different people depending on the environment of the person and their parents and even just the weather or what have you.
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