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
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
"That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent."
From Time Magazine Archive
Native is here not natural birth, but natural parent, or cause of birth.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
