Letter to the Pres, from Bob, the stem cell

Originally Posted by Bababooyee

In part, because a zygote has 46 chromosomes (23 from mom, 23 from dad - same as you and I ); each zygote has its own unique and complete DNA and begins to develop in accordance with such; and gender is determined at conception (yeah, I know, kinda redundant given the foregoing, but...).

EDIT: just caught the 2nd part...doesn't matter - see above.

EDIT II: And to just push it along a bit quicker...I am arguing that a zygote is a human life with potential. IOW, it is a human at a specific stage of normal human development. Just as, for example, a toddler is a human at a specific stage of development and has the potential to develop into the next stage (eg an adolecent-->teen-->adult-->senior citizen).

So a zygote that has 47 chromosomes (maybe one extra 21) would be a life?
Or a zygote that has 45 chromosomes would or would not be?
Or some other number than 46, cause it happens all the time?

More than 23 definitely though, in a zygote?

And maybe I can get a grip on the potential problem, when I better understand the above.