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Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Related Articles. Other times, a family may see the minor differences in identical twins and declare the twins fraternal based on these differences in appearance. There are a few commercial laboratories that, for a fee, will send families DNA collection kits to determine if the twins are identical or fraternal.
Identical twins have the same DNA; however, they may not look exactly identical to one another because of environmental factors such as womb position and life experiences after being born. All twins, whether fraternal or identical, are truly 2 separate, unique individuals. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.
Turn on more accessible mode. Turn off more accessible mode. Skip Ribbon Commands. Skip to main content. Turn off Animations. Turn on Animations. Our Sponsors Log in Register. And as those cells divide and multiply, at some point very early in embryonic growth they split into two individuals. So that you can imagine that the genetic material in these two identical twins is identical to each other, hence the name.
The contrast to this would be fraternal twins, which are twins born at the same time. However, they are actually the result of fertilization of two different eggs, and thus can be different genders and look different, and have different characteristics.
What's becoming increasingly clear is even though we call identical twins identical, and we think of their genetic material as being identical, we need to be reminded that there are environmental influences that may change, actually, the characteristics of identical twins, reminding us, as we already know, that even though identical twins come from the same genetic material, in characteristics they may actually have differences as well.
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