Re: If a hermaphroditic --not intersexed!-- person mated w/ his/herself, would it's child be genetically indistingushable from his/her sibling?

On Dec 18, 10:47 am, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
<bornfeldm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Protoman wrote:
If a hermaphroditic --not intersexed!-- person mated w/ his/herself,
would his/her child be genetically indistingushable from his/her
sibling?

I don't know that there are any functional hermaphroditic humans. But
assuming they are, then I think they would be somewhat closer than
siblings, since there is just one full complement of DNA, not two.
This brings up a topic I've wondered about, since I am one of a pair of
monozygotic twins. I knew another pair of identical twins (also
dentists) who married a pair of identical twin males. Both women became
pregnant about the same time. The four parents and two babies were once
guests on the old David Suskind tv show. One of the twins was trying to
explain to a befuddled-looking Suskind that while the two boys were
legally double first-cousins, they were genetically equivalent to
siblings, because they came from an identical gene pool. This makes
sense, but ignores any significance mitochondrial DNA may have.
Any geneticists out there?

Steve

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And I suppose the chld would be, genetically, the child of his/her
grandparents. So the genetic and genealogic relationships would all be
one generation from each other.
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