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Monday, February 24, 2014

Venus is suspected to be a chimera, which is when two zygotes fuse into one, leaving the animal with two sets of genetic information. Essentially, she would be her own twin!

Others aren't so sure that she is really a chimera and think that she could display mosaicism, which arises when genetic recombination results in different genotypes in a single organism's tissues.

Venus was born as a stray on a dairy farm in 2009 but now she lives a comfortable life in a good home. She’s still doing quite well and is in good health.

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