Say a chimera has 2 groups of DNA, let's call them DNA-1 and DNA-2; both are not fragments.
DNA-1 has the complete body function, such as muscles, brain cell.... etc.
DNA-2 has the same function as above.
My question is, how could DNA-1 in charge a certain part of the body and DNA-2 in charge a different part?
There must be some COMMUNICATION between those 2 DNA(s), right?
I guess the in/output signals from these organs are more important. It is like getting a heart transplant. The foreign heart works by itself without having to communicate with other organs at DNA level. As long as it is not rejected by the system, it can work for a while.
I read this on Wikipedia :
In 1953 a human chimera was reported in the British Medical Journal. A woman was found to have blood containing two different blood types. Apparently this resulted from cells from her twin brother living in her body.
If the blood types weren't A and O, I am sure that woman cannot survive.
My point is if they can live that means nature somehow find compatibility between the organs with different DNA...
This is the scariest part I have read...
In August 2003, researchers at the Shanghai Second Medical University in China reported that they had successfully fused human skin cells and dead rabbit eggs to create the first human chimeric embryos. The embryos were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory setting, then destroyed to harvest the resulting stem cells.
In 2007, scientists at the University of Nevada School of Medicine created a sheep whose blood contained 15% human cells and 85% sheep cells. The implications of increasingly realizable projects using human-animal hybrids for biopharmaceutical production, and potentially for producing cells or organs, have raised a host of ethical and safety issues.