natural parent
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A research team at NYU Langone Health sought to answer the question by creating a large, synthetic gene, with its DNA code in reverse order from its natural parent.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024
“I mean, a child should always be with his natural parent unless there’s something really bad going on at home,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2022
"That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent."
From Time Magazine Archive
The cloned child would be a genetically identical twin of the original, and thus physically very similar--far more similar than a natural parent and child.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Hastings passes by his natural parent, and appoints another woman.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
