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The term I was trying to remember: Microchimerism (fetal microchimerism - FMc)
Scientists have found male DNA, specifically paternal DNA in women who have had predominantly male children. This foreign DNA has also been found in the brain cells of some of these women. This male DNA gets passed to the mother through the placenta and becomes incorporated in the woman's own deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Explanation:
Fetal cells pass from child to mother while the mother's DNA also gets passed from her to the child. Within the cells of the fetus, scientists were able to isolate and identify paternal DNA, that is the specific Y chromosome of the child's father. Scientists found that these cells can linger in the woman's body for up to 27 years! Microchimerism is more prevalent among women who have boy babies, up to 70% but women who have daughters also experience this phenomenon. Scientists believe that microchimerism may also be involved in some instances of autoimmune diseases that affect women. Yes, sexual intercourse without a child being conceived can also lead to microchemerism.
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Two become one
The Bible spoke the truth when it declares that two become one flesh.
Genesis 2 verse 24:
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (NKJV)
In Matthew 19 verses 3-5, Jesus reiterates this seemingly simple but profound statement when challenged by the religious leaders of that time about the lawfulness of divorce.
3. Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4. “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? (NIV)
See also Mark 10 verse 8 and Ephesians 5 verse 31, 32.
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