Is it possible for a hermaphrodite to impregnate themselves with their own child?

Question

If so would that be incest? Would the child be a clone? Would the child be mutated?

Answer 1

It depends on if you're talking about humans or other animals.  While human hermaphrodites are either generally sterile or have surgery to remove one set of sexual organs while they are still infants, there are many other animals that are hermaphrodites and some of those can self-fertilize, for example, many species of snails.  

And, the offspring of self-fertilization are not clones because clones are the result of asexual reproduction.  Self-fertilization is sexual reproduction and still allows for new combinations of alleles, just the pool of available alleles to choose from is smaller.

Answer 2

hermaphrodites are sterile. Sorry but you are silly :P Oh and usually one part doesnt work (guess which one!)

Answer 3

No.  A hermaphrodite is usually sterile.  In the rare case that one is fertile it would only be fertile as a male or a female, not both.  During fetal develpment the gonads are formed into either the testis or the ovaries, never both.  Hermaphrodites usually have nonfunctioning gonads (whether male or female), but they have male and female secondary s*x organs (p***s or v****a).  

If there were a possiblity for one to impregnate itself, it still wouldn't be a clone.  Fertilization would occur after genetic recombination during oogenisis and spermatogenisis.  Therefore the offspring would have variablity in its genetic make up when compared to the parent.  They would probably look more like siblings than anything.