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A Two-Faced Cat! - In Texas
By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor
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The double-faced Texan kitten
Another freak in the gallery of odd cats: a two-faced one! They may live nine lives, but with a face from SF movies. Renee Cook of Amarillo, Texas, got a real shock when her three-year-old Persian and Calico mix cat Amber delivered this two-faced kitten.

"I picked it up and said, 'Oh my goodness, two faces'. I thought it was
dead at first because it was cold. But then it started to wiggle and it kept wiggling and wiggling. He has a strong heartbeat and was kind of feisty. So now I'm thinking that it's going to live," Cook, a special needs children's nurse, told Amarillo Globe-News.

The weird male kitten has two mouths, two noses and four eyes, but only two ears, and has to be infant-formula fed, as its two mouths impede it to nurse properly from its mother.

"It can't nurse, but it will take formula," she said.

Veterinarians say that these cases are extremely rare, and usually the kitten does not reach adulthood.

"You don't see many adult cats like that, so the chances of a long-term survival are pretty slim," said veterinarian David Hodges.

Still, two years ago, a two-headed cat was born in Arizona and the animal, baptized Lil'Bit, has survived to adulthood and lives a healthy life.

This type of abnormality could be caused by a developmental issue and it is called diprosopus. It emerges when twins start to form and don't completely separate. The twins are completely fused with one set of limbs, but part or all the face is duplicated. Such cases have been signaled along the time in snakes, turtles, pigs, cows, and other species.

This type of abnormal development could also be caused by a gene mutation, which seems not to impede the animal to live a normal life.

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it cud happen to human someday

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It has happened to humans, thus there are deformalities such as siamese twins, which is the exact replication of the said molecular phenomenon only it affects the genus Sapiensis, and the species Homo Sapien.

Any further mutation on humans where there are two faces in the skull would lead to the death of the said organism due to the problems that would arise, neurophysiologically.

The reasons why there are no popular-documented cases of this is that upon conception, any mutanogensis of this type would result in the eukaryotic deletion of the mutant wilde type in the uterus.

Higher echelon organisms have a 3'----5' proofreading sequence that scans for such mutanogensis and if such an advent occurs, will correct it so that the nucleotides that are out of place are replaced with proper base-pairing nucleotides.

Its is part of the complex and assidual nature of the DNA Polymerase I and DNA polymerase III



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