I don't think there's a "term" for it other than a gay couple having a baby using a surrogate. So far, to create an embryo you need sperm and an egg, so it's impossible for two women or two men to conceive a child. For two gay men, it would involve egg donation and IVF (in-Vitro fertilization), and a surrogate. They don't usually recommend the egg donor and the surrogate be the same person. It's too risky that she'll get attached to the baby.
Not yet, but I am sure someone is working on it.What is the term called when two males have a baby together from a surrogate mother?
A surrogate mother means that she is carrying and having the baby for two people, regardless of sex. If 2 men wanted a baby and used a woman's egg and one of the male's sperm then it would have both genetic make ups of those people. If they used another woman's egg and one of the male's sperm, it would have that genetic make up but not that of the surrogate mother. You cannot have 2 males fertilizing the same egg.
I don't think so. I've never heard of doing that. There could possibly be a lot of problems with doing that as well.
But it will still be called both of yours child regardless and thats what you should treat it as. It's still the result of you and your partner trying to make a baby even though you actually didn't make it with eachother.
The term is 'parents'. In your second question, it is not possible to extract genes and replace them with others. At best, in any gay couple, only one can be biologically related to the child.
I'm not sure that there is a term for it.. There may be a term for that on urbandictionary.com
But I will say that two dads are better than none!
No, it's biologically not possible to combine the genes from two males (or from two females, for that matter). There's a process called genomic imprinting which makes that kind of thing impossible.
What that means is, your genes "know" whether you're a male or a female, and there are lethal factors built into your genetic makeup to prevent you from reproducing with a member of the same sex. It's closely related to your body's need to prevent you from being able to self-fertilize yourself. Imagine what would happen if your sperm cells could combine together while they were still inside your body and start growing into a baby, or if a woman's egg cells did something like that.
If you tried to combine genes with another male, you'd almost certainly never succeed in conceiving, and if by some rare chance you did then the embryo would die almost immediately, within a few cell divisions. It can't be changed and it can't be helped, I'm afraid.
Sorry, you can't do that. Interesting idea, but you can't do that. The DNA from the embryo will be the surrogate mother's or donor egg's DNA.
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