Can 2 different sperm cause pregnancy?

Two separate eggs (ova) are fertilised by two separate sperm, resulting in fraternal or 'dizygotic' (two-cell) twins. These babies will be no more alike than siblings born at separate times. The babies can be either the same sex or different sexes.

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Can a woman get pregnant with sperm from two different males?

In rare cases, fraternal twins can be born from two different fathers in a phenomenon called heteropaternal superfecundation. Although uncommon, rare cases have been documented where a woman is pregnant by two different men at the same time.

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What happens if you have two different sperms?

Non-identical, or dizygotic, twins occur when two separate eggs are fertilised, each by a different sperm, and develop in the womb at the same time. These twins can be the same or different sexes and are no more alike than any brother or sister, despite being born together.

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Can a baby have DNA from two different fathers?

Although this is quite rare it can happen and it's called superfetation. Two babies are conceived from separate acts in two different cycles. These babies can be from the same father or two different men. When heteropaternal superfecundation occurs, the babies are from different fathers.

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Can a woman have twins with 2 different fathers?

Yes, it is possible to have twins with different biological fathers. The scientific term for this anomaly is “heteropaternal superfecundation,” and it's super cool.

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What is pre-ejaculate (pre-cum), and can it cause pregnancy?

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What is super pregnant?

Superfetation is a rare event that involves getting pregnant a second time while you're already pregnant. It's so uncommon that cases of superfetation often make headlines.

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How can we conceive twins?

Fertility treatment

Some fertility drugs work by stimulating a woman's ovaries, which can sometimes cause them to release more than one egg. If sperm fertilizes both of these eggs, this can result in twins. In vitro fertilization (IVF) can also increase the chance of conceiving twins.

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Do a father and a son have the exact same DNA?

Most chromosomes, including the two x-chromosomes possessed by females, get recombined or shuffled each generation before being passed down to offspring. But the y-chromosome is unique in remaining more or less unchanged when passed from father to son.

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Can a baby have 3 fathers?

The third parent

When defective mitochondria of the woman's egg were replaced with mitochondria from a donor who did not carry the mutation, the resulting child carried DNA from three people: the female nuclear DNA donor, the male nuclear DNA or sperm donor, and the female mitochondria donor.

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Do you carry your baby daddy's DNA for 7 years?

Male fetal progenitor cells persist in maternal blood for as long as 27 years postpartum. Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

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Who carries the gene for twins?

The quick answer to this question is that, in a twin pregnancy, it is the mother's genes that determine twins. First up, giving birth to identical twins is not genetic, but conceiving fraternal twins is. The mother may have the genetic trait of releasing two eggs in one menstrual cycle.

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Can you get pregnant while 3 months pregnant?

How rare is getting pregnant while you're pregnant? It's extremely rare to get pregnant when you're already pregnant. There have been fewer than ten recorded cases of superfetation in humans.

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How long does it take to get pregnant?

With frequent unprotected sex, most healthy couples conceive within one year. Of all couples trying to conceive: 30 percent get pregnant within the first cycle (about one month). 60 percent get pregnant within three cycles (about three months).

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Can a baby have 2 biological mothers?

Yes the marvels of science have made it possible and the two-mum approach lets same-sex couples share the biological role. The process involves one woman's eggs, mixed in a lab dish with a donor sperm and then implanted in the other woman who carries the pregnancy.

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Can a baby have two male DNA?

💡 Yes, it is conceivable for a baby to have two biological fathers through the process known as bipaternalism or heteropaternal superfecundation, where a woman ovulates twice within the same menstrual cycle and has sexual intercourse with two different men, resulting in fraternal twins with different sets of paternal ...

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Who has the most babies born to one father?

The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records.

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What is the 3 person baby technique?

The procedure — sometimes called three-person in vitro fertilization (IVF) — involves moving nuclear genetic material from an egg or single-cell embryo with disease-causing mitochondria to a donor egg or embryo that has had its nuclear genetic material removed.

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Whose nose does the baby get?

The tip of the nose is around 66 per cent likely to be the result of your parents' genes, and the philtrum around 62 per cent. These areas, as well as the cheekbones and the inner corner of the eye were found to be most influenced by genetics.

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Do babies get more genes from mom or dad?

We inherit more genes from our maternal side. That's because it's the egg, not the sperm, that hands down all of the mitochondrial DNA. In addition, the W chromosome has more genes.

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What genes are inherited from father only?

A condition is considered Y-linked if the altered gene that causes the disorder is located on the Y chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes in each of a male's cells. Because only males have a Y chromosome, in Y-linked inheritance, a variant can only be passed from father to son.

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Is twin labor more painful?

The birth process is similar to giving birth to a single baby. If you're planning a vaginal birth, your health team may recommend that you have an epidural for pain relief.

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Can you have twins if it doesn't run in your family?

Everyone has the same chance of having identical twins: about 1 in 250. Identical twins do not run in families. But there are some factors that make having non-identical twins more likely: non-identical twins are more common in some ethnic groups, with the highest rate among Nigerians and the lowest among Japanese.

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What is the longest to be pregnant?

The longest recorded human pregnancy was 375 days, or just over 12 and a half months, according to Guinness World Records.

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