If the same sperm fertilised a different egg...?

Question

... from which you were created, would you still be you? I mea- you would have a different personality, appearance and whol life but would you still be you?

Answer 1

Every cell in the human body is diploid, having two sides to the double helix DNA, except sperm and ova, which are haploid; having only one side.  It would take both sides of the double helix to be identical for another to be produced with exactly the same details.  Even then, as identical twins prove, there are differences. So, one batch of sperm could fertilize quite literally millions of eggs (ova) and every baby be completely different.

Answer 2

No, you wouldn't be you. The DNA is completely different in one egg than it is from the next egg. Recombination makes sure of this.

In the formation of gametes (s*x cells) the chromosomes pair off and break apart, and then the broken pieces reattach to the opposite chromosome. So, say 'A' and 'B' are two different chromosomes in a pair. This is what would happen:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

AAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA

BBBBBBBBBBBBB BBBBBBBB

AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBB

BBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAA

This happens over and over again, until the chromosomes eventually look like this:

AAABBBBBAAAABBBAAABBB

BBBAAAAABBBBAAABBBAAA

See? This happens so that EVERY single sperm and every single egg are VERY different from each other.

Answer 3

Is this what you mean?

1. Something like this, a man let's name it "A", has this wife "B", had you know the magic thing, then this A produces his s***n and also the B, and B got pregnant?

  Ans: when a man produces its sperm it millions, right? But it has different characteristics, in 4.6 millions in per table spoon, if that's what i remember, Half of it  (2 millions) are normal or the others are like deformities and some irregularities. That's why it cause some genetically deformities in the body parts of the baby. Every little sperms has different characteristics it contains.

      In the side of the woman, every month, woman has their menstrual cycle. They produces new egg, that has different characteristics.  

2.Let say A, divorce with his wife B, and got another girl "C", and do another magic thing so C got pregnant?

   Ans:of course they got the baby but not with the same appearance.

Answer 4

you would be different.  Brothers born of the same parents at different times ie siblings aren't identical are they. I look nothing like my sister and personality wise we are very different but we have the same parents, same eggs and sperm.

Answer 5

if it was a different egg from the same person then I would be me because of genetics a different persons egg then obviously different

Answer 6

I don't think so.

If your original sperm from your Dad inpregnated a different person, you would be that new person.

If it was your Mums egg, you still would be a new person.

That's what I think. Who knows?

Answer 7

What a stupid question.

You would be someone else entirely.

You've a long way to go before you can hold a decent pseudo-intellectual conversation, my son.

Answer 8

Any human being is the unique product of one sperm and one egg. Change either and you have a different human being.

Answer 9

no I couldnt be me....id have a different biological mum after all.....unless its a donated egg...in wich case I would not be brought up by my biological mum...so she would have less influence over me....but yeah...of course having a diff egg would make u a diff person, even if the sperms the same.

Answer 10

I thinkit's a really good question but the answer depends on what you believe, I think , for example, that if someone miscarries a baby then the soul is still waiting for them to conceive again so that it can go into the new baby that has been created, that sound really religious which I'm not but to simplify them yes, looks and appearance may be different but you would still be you.