natural parent
Americannoun
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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
Walker, misunderstanding the purport of his words, replied:— "Yes, she is a good and affectionate child, as much so as if I were her natural parent."
From The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician by Fuhrer, Charlotte
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