The littlest chimera

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Hold on, so this cat is an actual chimera?

Chimeras are not that rare. They happen e.g. whenever some mutation happens early in development: one half of one quarter or one eighth, … of the cells will be of the mutated kind. There's also other ways

It looks that way. From a pretty early stage I would guess. Like 4 or 8 cells or something?

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