(February 3, 2015 at 2:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Mitochondrial DNA from someone other than the egg or sperm donor isn't going to have near the variability (or effect) on the off springs behavior or appearance that the human DNA will.
Mitochondria don't engage in sex, they fission. Much slower process than the wholesale gene shuffle from good old fashioned man on top hurry up and get it over with type fornication.
Mitochondria is passed maternally (in the 'old' way) BTW, so finding another descendent of a shared ancestor to donate would get you a virtually identical (hopefully minus the deleterious mutation) mitochondria if someone was super worried about gestating a monster of some kind. I'm not sure just any old mitochondria would work (ape, cow, fish, bug ?) but that kind experiment might be a little more plausible for the churchites to have a problem with.
But are they the squiggly beans??
