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@sk3ptic If he exercised enough?

@annettel Fluff? This case should be on the cover of the New England Journal of Medicine (Dog Edition) Or whatever the big veterinary medical journal is

@gentlesheepman Is a human more closely related to a fraternal twin compared to an older or younger sibling? I don't think so. But obviously a human is more closely related to an identical twin (they are exact clones). But do identical twins ever appear in a litter of puppies? I've never...

@imagebeastmarkbeast I'm getting downvoted, but this article you linked literally confirms what I said. Mom passes one of two copies for each of her genes onto an offspring. Theoretically, she could pass one copy of each of her genes to one offspring and the other copy of each of her genes to...

@imagebeastmarkbeast So why can't the mom provide one set of genes to Child 1 and a different set of genes to Child 2? And dad can do the same. Why would siblings inherit 50% of the same genes? You said yourself that it's all random.

@imagebeastmarkbeast So why do siblings share 50% of their DNA? Why can't the parents pass certain genes to one child and completely different genes to another child?

@imagebeastmarkbeast I'm sorry, if two siblings have the same two parents, they share 50% of their DNA? That doesn't seem to make a ton of sense to me. How do you figure?

@imagebeastmarkbeast The same 50% what?