It’s much murkier than that. The placenta is majority made from the DNA of the sperm, not the egg. The child in the womb is both the DNA of the egg and of the sperm. There is both cooperation and competition in the gestation process. Ultimately it becomes impossible for the verb “belongs to” to have any meaning.
It’s much murkier than that. The placenta is majority made from the DNA of the sperm, not the egg. The child in the womb is both the DNA of the egg and of the sperm. There is both cooperation and competition in the gestation process. Ultimately it becomes impossible for the verb “belongs to” to have any meaning.