text: if we could dna-test jesus, would he be haploid?   i had a biology teacher in high school say once that there was only one case of parthenogenesis (so-called vigin birth) in humans...jesus christ.  parthenogenesis in vertebrates usually involves all-female species where the females lay diploid eggs that develop into diploid females.  because human males have an x and a y chromosomes and females two x's, the parthenogeneis explanation is impossible (unless jesus was female).  but, in insects and some other animals, unfertilized (haploid) eggs develop into males - but this is impossible in humans.  so jesus would have to have been diploid (that is if he existed) and we would have to assume that he got the y chromosome from god (if he exists).