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What a homozygous?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It literally means "same egg". The term is used to refer to multiple births (twins, triplets etc.) It is a fancy way to say identical twins. Heterozygous twins did not develop from the same egg but two (or more) different eggs. They are also called fraternal twins.

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16y ago

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