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Multiple eggs are released or there is more than one ovulation. Both (or more) eggs are fertilized and you have fraternal twins. This can happen with or without fertility drugs.

Identical twins result when one fertilized egg splits early in the growth process and the two halves each grow to term.

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Are female twins that are not identical called Fraternal or Maternal?

Female twins that are not identical are called fraternal twins. Fraternal twins occur when two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperm. Maternal twins refer to twins that share the same mother but can include both identical and fraternal twins.


What percentage of twins are identical?

Approximately 30 of twins are identical, also known as monozygotic twins.


What is the difference between dizygotic twins and monozygotic twins?

Dizygotic twins develop from two separate ova fertilized by different sperm at roughly the same time, they are also called fraternal twins. Monozygotic twins develop from one zygote that splits apart producing genetically identical zygotes; also called identical twins.


If a boy and a girl are twins are they faternal twins or twins?

If a boy and a girl are twins, they are known as fraternal twins. Fraternal twins result from the fertilization of two separate eggs by two separate sperm cells, whereas identical twins result from the fertilization of a single egg by a single sperm cell that later splits into two embryos.


What do you call twins that are born connected?

Twins that are born connected are called conjoined twins. There are different kinds of conjoined twins, including thoracopagus, omphalopagus, and craniophagus twins, While thoracopagus twins are connected at the torso's top portion and can share one heart, omphalopagus twins are joined from the breastbone to the waist and share a liver. Craniophagus twins are connected at the head region.