Let's Talk About Chimeras

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>>19381236
(((COHEN))) bet your ass a jew wont be made a hybrid of

>>19381327
LMAO

>>19381236
A chimera in biology is any creature with two distinct sets of DNA. Usually this is done by two zygotes merging in the womb. It can also be made through transplants. Any and all people who have had an organ transplant are technically chimeras. In biology, a chimera is NOT a hybrid.

http://stemcellbioethics.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Module+7+-+Human-Animal+Chimeras
>A hybrid is created when an ovum from one species is fertilized by the sperm of another species. All the cells in a hybrid organism contain the same genetic information that is derived from the two different species.
>In contrast, human - animal chimeras, generated by introducing human stem cells into an animal embryo, are composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. One cell type contains a complete human genome while the second cell type contains a complete genome of the animal species.

Chimeras in mythology were a specific hybrid animal made up of a lion, goat, and serpent. Sometimes it is depicted with wings or a dragon head as well, though I feel this is a later addition. Also, chimera can be generalized into any mythological creature composed of two different species, though I usually don't as this can lead to confusion (i.e. Pegasus is a chimera as in two animals fused, but not an "actual" chimera).

We have had hybrids since prehistoric times. The Egyptian Empire used mules, and we have Sumerian texts pricing a mule.
http://www.mulemuseum.org/history-of-the-mule.html

We have used chimeras since ancient times as well. Ever since the first branch of one tree was grafted onto a tree of a different type. This likely happened around 600-500 BCE, though there is shaky evidence of it developing earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting#History.2C_society_and_culture

CRISPR just provides a faster, more precise way to create these hybrids and chimeras.

>>19382488
>In biology, a chimera is NOT a hybrid

But if if you made a Chimera from two zygotes that were of separate species then it would be a hybrid.

It would be both a Chimera and a Hybrid.

>>19382501
>But if if you made a Chimera from two zygotes that were of separate species then it would be a hybrid.
No it would not. The terminology does not depend on how the creature was made, it depends on what is inside the creature.
1 set of DNA = not chimera
2+ sets of DNA = chimera

If you were to take a hybrid and introduce a completely different set of DNA into it, then you would have a chimera and a hybrid. Like if you put human DNA into a mule.

>>19382521
Not him but...
2+ sets of DNA equal a mosaic, not a chimera

A chimera requires the fusion of two zygotes.
They are basicly the same, but the terminology DO depends on how the creature was made

>>19383454
I had not heard the term mosaic for biology before. Interesting, although the wiki seems to indicate chimeras and mosaics arise from different procedures.

>Genetic mosaics may often be confused with chimerism, in which two or more genotypes arise in one individual similarly to mosaicism. However, the two genotypes arise from the fusion of more than one fertilized zygote in the early stages of embryonic development, rather than from a mutation.

It seems the main difference is a mosaic results from a single zygote mutating early in development.

http://genegeek.ca/2014/07/mosaic-vs-chimera/
>The different cell lines in chimeras originally come from different zygotes whereas mosaics arise from the same zygote.