dna

[cool_ant]

If I got a girl pregnant, and my brother did a dna test to see if he was the father would the result come back positive?

[mata hari]

Ah! you admit it then!

[cool_ant]

Mata hari- WHat are you talking about just answer the question if you know the answer, Thank you

[aka estie]

Cool_ant, can you please answer this for me - is this a quiz question or something? It has appeared on this site quite a few times in the past week or so.

[cool_ant]

Genreral enquiry - aka estie

[wellsy73]

and if he got a girl pregnant and you did the dna test would the result be the same?

[potterfan3]

no, everyone has unique DNA, even identical twins. sorry this will teach you to not sleep with your sister in law in the future

[bernardo]

No - it would be negative, but it would be close enough to tell that your brother is related to the father. By the way, potterfan is partly incorrect - identical twins do have the same DNA - but different fingerprints.

[brachiopod]

There is no 'positive' and 'negative' test - results are given as percentage probabilities of the child X being the offspring of father Y.

So your brother may never need know...er-hum.. in this hypothetical situation, of course......

[Jack Maude]

Is this something to do with the Will and Ed Grundy lurv triangle with the woman whose name I can't remember?

[brachiopod]

You mean Emmurr.

It's obvious that cool_ant is William Grundy and I claim my �5.

Pint of Shires, Jack Maude?

[elginsmarble]

potterman3 is wrong. Identical (monozygotic) twins do, in fact, have identical genomes. So if you and your brother are identical twins then the DNA test would be positive.

[Jack Maude]

See you in the Bull after harvest, Brachiopod. Oh, and bring me a bag of those organic carrots please.