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
Through all this, the foster parents have to stifle the temptation to divide the child's loyalty, especially when the natural parent is obviously unfit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Some indeed say, that Mr. Bickerstaff and Pasquin are only names invented, to father compositions which the natural parent does not care for owning.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
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