Chimera (Genetics) - Wikipedia - ambiguous genitalia  ## Metadata - Author: **ambiguous genitalia** - Full Title: Chimera (Genetics) - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)#The_Human_Chimera_Prohibition_Act ## Highlights - The Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2016, was introduced to the United States House of Representatives by Christopher H. Smith. It identifies a chimera as: a human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells (or the component parts thereof) have been introduced to render the embryo's membership in the species Homo sapiens uncertain; a chimera human/animal embryo produced by fertilizing a human egg with nonhuman sperm; chimera human/animal embryo produced by fertilizing a nonhuman egg with human sperm; an embryo produced by introducing a nonhuman nucleus into a human egg; an embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg; an embryo containing at least haploid sets of chromosomes from both a human and a nonhuman life form; a nonhuman life form engineered such that human gametes develop within the body of a nonhuman life form; or a nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues