Fraternal twins occur when the woman has released two eggs simultaneously, and they've both been fertilised by different sperm.
The babies born will be no more similar to each other than any other set of siblings from the same parents.
The other type is identical twins, where there's one egg that for some reason splits and form two individuals. These will usually be very much alike, as they share the exact same genetic material.
Fraternal twins share most of their genetic material, by virtue of having the same parents. Identical twins, however, by definition share 100% of their DNA. This means, for example, that identical twins cannot ever be one of each gender, as fraternal twins often are.
How do fraternal twins form? Answer one egg from each ovary is fertilized.
Fraternal twins are twins who develop from two separate fertilized eggs. They can be of the same or different genders and share about 50% of their genetic material. Fraternal twins are also known as dizygotic twins.
Fraternal twins are more popular.
Another name for fraternal twins is dizygotic twins.
There is no precise percentage of fraternal or identical twins but it is estimated that 2/3 of all twins are fraternal where as 1/3 of twins are identical.
identical twins are single egg twins. fraternal twins a two egg twins. fraternal
Fraternal twins can be the same sex or opposite sexes. It doesn't matter.
Yes, fraternal twins are perfectly normal.
fraternal twins have two different chromosomes
Fraternal twins are two siblings that have the same birth day, but do not look identical.
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