Striking resemblance

when I was younger,I have always been fascinated at the sight of identical twins. As years passed and I grew older, my amazement towards them seemed to diminish. Afterall, both were formed from thesame cell, both shared the same womb and came to the world at the same time, and this was almost enough to explain their likeness. Nevertheless, They are God's miracle.

I became more fascinated at the striking resemblance between two individuals who shared less in common. Ever saw a staggering resemblance between father and son? Mother and daughter? or two unrelated persons? ..... Thats what I am talking about here.

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According to basic biology, hundreds of millions of genes which are responsible for traits and characters are transmitted from parents to their offsprings during meiosis. Hence, a child gets a copy of identical information from both parents which would be be genetically and phenotypically expressed in that child.

Usually, a child takes a fifty-fifty percent contribution from the two parents. But some times, a child might inherit over eighty percent of his characteristics from a single parent which will definitely lead to a child looking more like one parent than the other.

I have heard cases where a man might deny being responsible for a pregnancy and in such a case, a DNA test might be performed on the child as soon as he's born in order clear the air. Sometimes, there would be absolutely no need for a DNA test if the child bears an astounding resemblance to the man in question. Lol.

There's this popular music artist in my country who had fathered seven children for three different women and its nothing short of a miracle that all his kids are splitting images of him. As a matter of fact, you would think he gave birth to all of them himself without the assistance of a female. Lol.

In some cases, a child might not look like his father or mother, but a relative in the family which is perfectly normal, since such occurrence is still within the gene pool of the family. I have seen a lot of cousins who look alike that you would think they were actually siblings.

Some children might take the look of a maternal uncle or a grandparent. As a matter of fact, the resemblance between a cousin of mine and my late grand mom is really frightening that it makes one to believe in reincarnation even though you don't want to.

As it is popularly said, "Like father like son". Like mother like daughter" . Sometimes it could be "Like father like daughter".there are cases where a girl would bear so much resemblance to her dad. I have seen a young lady who was a splitting image of her dad. They had exactly . The dad was a beardless man and when they stand together, you might think that a binary fission had just taken place. They also share the same walking posture, height and shoulders. I guess the only difference between them is the "Man and woman difference". Lol

We have seen some folks around and in social media that share strong resemblance with a popular celeb. An old man once said, if we could search the whole world, we would definitely find someone that looks just like us and I have always wondered how true this statement was.

It must have happened to you one time or the other in the past, where a total stranger would just walk up to you , and start relating and talking to you in a very familiar manner, and as soon as they realize that you were not actually a known person but bears a very similar look to some one they know, they would apologize for the mix up albeit embarrassed. I have had a similar experience twice in the past.

There was this middle aged lady that sells foodstuffs in the market who claims I look so much like her aunt. Well, I really don't know wether she meant it or she was just trying to hook a customer. Well, we became very friendly and she would always reduce the prices of whatever item I bought from her. Sometimes, she would even gift me an item of a much lower price after I had paid for the things I bought.

This made me quite uncomfortable and I had to stop passing through that particular street in the market. Of course I was very grateful for her generosity but I couldn't just get used to it.

No doubt, one can enjoy alot of unexpected benefits and favour when you meet some one in authority or power who believes that you share physical similarities to some one special to them. you could always leverage on this opportunity to better yourself.

In few cases, it might become a source of misfortune if one happens to share resemblance with a lawbreaker or a crook. A victim might mistake you for the criminal and things might get really messy.

What about you dear friend, have you ever been told you share a strong resemblance with someone you didn't know?

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Thank you so much for taking your time to read.

Yours Lovely

Bilqees

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