ABSTRACT
Let’s go back to the start. At the moment of conception the sperm has travelled up the fallopian tube and pierced the shell of the egg to form the zygote.The combination of genes from the father and from the mother provide a unique genetic pattern and, from that moment in time, and provided there are no accidents during the time of cell division or negative
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