If a hermaphrodite impregnates themslelves, will the child be a naturally born exact clone of the parent?

This question has been bugging me for a while now. If anyone can truthfully answer. Naturally, this is a hypothetical question, so ignore things like pregnancy and birth complications.If a hermaphrodite impregnates themslelves, will the child be a naturally born exact clone of the parent?
no, there are still dominant and recessive genes and all that, and each gene is randomly generated in each sperm or egg. if you had the same genes in every one of your eggs or sperm, then all brothers and sisters would be twins.If a hermaphrodite impregnates themslelves, will the child be a naturally born exact clone of the parent?
It's next to impossible for a hermaphrodite to impregnate themselves. Also, majority of hermaphrodites tend to be infertile as adults and a lot of them never get to have their own biological children.
no, the generation of ova and sperm are not exact processes, with some pseudorandom mixing of characteristics. Since the parent can contribute either of its parents' chromosomes to both the egg and sperm, it's entirely possible to double up on one grandparent's chromosomes, which would certainly not be a clone of the parent.
Theres's been work done with barnacles. With millions of offspring, the complications are dealt with by numbers and deleterious recessives are eliminated at and accelerated rate. Self fertilization results in recombinaion. Each chromosome in both gamates is randomly selected and cross over events occur.
A heraphrodite has sex organs from bth sexes, but not necessarily the DNA to support it.





In zoology and botany, a hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs during its life[1]. In many species, hermaphroditism is a common part of the life-cycle, particularly in some asexual animals and some plants. Generally, hermaphroditism occurs in the invertebrates, although it occurs in a fair number of fish, and to a lesser degree in other vertebrates. Typically, in hermaphrodites belonging to a species in which hermaphroditism is not the norm (humans, for example), reproduction is not possible, but there are some instances in which sperm or ova are capable of conceiving offspring. On very rare occasions, such a hermaphrodite can even impregnate itself, but this will result in complications, such as the offspring having identical DNA to its parent.


Gonadal dysgenesis is a type of intersexuality formerly known as ';true hermaphroditism';. It occurs in about one percent of mammals, including human beings, but it is extremely rare for both sets of organs to be functional; usually neither set is functional. In humans, these manifestations are often altered (sometimes only cosmetically) to resemble standard male or female anatomy shortly after birth - often without the parents' knowledge or (informed) consent.
It is less hypothetical than you may think. There are women that can self impregnate. It is a scientific fact, although quite rare. As far as complications go, that is very variable. The offspring could be genetic copy of the mother. There might be complications, and then there might not. Family genetics would play a role since no child carries the traits of just mother and father. Traits go back as far as 2 or 3 generations on each side. A woman who could self impregnate might have sufficient genetic traits as to protect the child from complications of in family breeding.