Babies With Three Parents
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The basis behind human reproduction is pretty simple -- an egg cell from your mom and a sperm cell from your dad each provide half of their genetic material to complete the 23 pairs of chromosomes of DNA that make up your genome. This is the complete set of genetic instructions that makes you unique. But there’s a whole other set of genetic instructions inside your cells, called mitochondrial DNA. And in some cases, a third person can donate that mitochondrial DNA as a part of fertility treatment. Our genome encodes for more than 20,000 individual genes. Together, they’re responsible for things like your looks, how you respond to disease, and powering each individual cell within your bodies. That kind of DNA is stored in the form of chromosomes inside the nuclei of your cells. Inside your cells, you also have...
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The basis behind human reproduction is pretty simple -- an egg cell from your mom and a sperm cell from your dad each provide half of their genetic material to complete the 23 pairs of chromosomes of DNA that make up your genome. This is the complete set of genetic instructions that makes you unique. But there’s a whole other set of genetic instructions inside your cells, called mitochondrial DNA. And in some cases, a third person can donate that mitochondrial DNA as a part of fertility treatment. Our genome encodes for more than 20,000 individual genes. Together, they’re responsible for things like your looks, how you respond to disease, and powering each individual cell within your bodies. That kind of DNA is stored in the form of chromosomes inside the nuclei of your cells. Inside your cells, you also have...
