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We (us and the kids) really wanted to give her a cool name with meaning so we came up with Venus, greek for the goddess of beauty and love. He did get a LOT of attention at the airport & shocked and amazed everyone who got a look at her through the carrier. A genetic chimerism or chimera (/ k a m r, k -/ ky-MEER-, k-) is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype.In animals, this means an individual derived from two or more zygotes, which can include possessing blood cells of different blood types, subtle variations in form and, if the zygotes were of differing sexes, then even the possession of. They fuse together to become a single organism whose DNA is from two. Quimera may be what’s known as a Genetic chimera cat, a rare natural occurrence whereby an individual is made up of cells from at least two different original eggs. She flew back in a carrier on his lap (a soft material pink one… lol) and was about 2 mos old at the time. This is Quimera, a gorgeous gata from Argentina whose unusual features are taking the internet by storm. I asked her to get permission from the farm owner to adopt the cat out, paid for her to take her to the vet to be cleared of illness/disease & get 1st round of shots, and my husband (yes he is awesome) flew up 2 days later to get her. So when I clicked on the next picture I couldn’t get on the phone fast enough with her. The distinctively mottled orange and black coat is a sign that the cat has an extra X chromosome. In fact, most male tortoiseshell cats are chimeras.
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Among cats, chimeras are really not all that rare, Lyons said. However, since she is a female who naturally has two X chromosomes, her coat may be a typical tortoiseshell coat. A feline chimera is a cat whose cells contain two types of DNA, caused when two embryos fuse together. I wanted her right then and there because she looked like a combo….I hadn’t seen the eyes yet. Yes, it is possible that this beautiful cat carries two (or more) cell populations, both expressing themselves in her phenotype. Along with her gorgeous split-faced mask, Quimera has a perfectly fluffy coat, a plume cat tail, and eyes that were meant to be gazed into. Naturally being an animal lover I looked through the pics and saw this little split face cat that looked like a combo of the 2 cats I currently had (and still have), an orange tabby and a black tux. But, now it seems that Quimera, a gorgeous long-haired chimera cat out of Argentina is looking to take the crown as her purrfect predecessor to the celebrity chimera cat throne. An immortal creature unlike that of our docile two-faced cats. It’s a hybrid creature that combines the lion, goat, and snake altogether. A fire-breathing entity with at least three heads. A chimera, according to Greek myth, is a creature that appears monstrous. Almost 3 years ago in September 2009 one of my childhood friends posted some pics of a bunch of stray kittens her husband took pics of while he was doing some work on a dairy farm in North Carolina. We get a sense of understanding of the concept of Chimera cats from Greek Mythology.