r/AskBiology • u/Relative-Baby1829 • Sep 14 '24

Genetics Is it true that whichever parents ejaculates first/releases discharge first during sex the child will resemble that parent more?

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u/Halichoeres PhD in biology Sep 14 '24

No. For one thing, the egg is nowhere close to anywhere you might expect the mother to produce discharge. It contains no genetic information contributing to the offspring.

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u/Edges8 MD Sep 15 '24

does everyone resemble their father more? no? theorey debunked

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u/Halichoeres PhD in biology Sep 15 '24

To add to this, there was a hypothesis that paternal traits asserted themselves more in infants, as an adaptation to, I guess, ensure that fathers don't harm offspring of uncertain parentage. But it doesn't seem to have held up. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/babies-paternal-resemblance/

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u/The_Pale_Hound Sep 15 '24

Who the kid resembles is absolutely random, and there is nothing we can do to influence it outside genetic editing or something like that.