Timeline for Could your grandchild be genetically identical to you?
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| Dec 30, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Fattie | hey @RonJohn - I mean yeah, the question is rather confused anyways; both your point and my point are rather arcane! Cheers and happy new year for 2018! | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | pipe | @RonJohn The question doesn't even mention humans, so I went for it. As far as we know, this could be a race of immortal space chickens! | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 14:46 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Fattie good point about cryogenically storing sperm and eggs. | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 14:39 | comment | added | Fattie | "Except that you won't be alive to breed with the 5th generation" trivially solved by merely storing sperm/eggs. If (for some bizarre reason) a dystopian society wanted to achieve this, it is technologically trivial even today (you just need "a refrigerator!") - as easy as we currently do it with mice, horses etc. But it's sort of a trick answer to the question ("everyone would be identical"). | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 14:37 | comment | added | Fattie | Right, exactly as mentioned in a comment at the top: "take a look at lab mouse strains. They are inbread to the point of being genetically identical — so identical parents then have a matching identical offspring. – JDługosz" Essentially, the only way offspring would be "identical" in the sense of the OPs question, is, in a (presumably!) dystopian society where, for whatever reason, all humans are linebred. Then, quiet simply, everyone in that group would be identical, including offspring/grandchildren etc etc. | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | Jules | @RonJohn - as the answers says, this is worldbuilding. The subject may have access to some form of hibernation technology, routinely take long trips at relativistic velocity, or be a time traveler of some kind. | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 3:03 | comment | added | RonJohn | Except that you won't be alive to breed with the 5th generation (probably not be able to breed with the 4th or 3rd) much less the 12th. Also, "identical" means "close enough" when comparing cars, but not genes. | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 1:55 | history | answered | pipe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |