FalscherFuchs@feddit.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThere are identical twins out there whose parents confused one with the other and now they living their life with the name of the other sibling, never noticing because it doesn't make any difference.message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareThere are identical twins out there whose parents confused one with the other and now they living their life with the name of the other sibling, never noticing because it doesn't make any difference.FalscherFuchs@feddit.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThat’s not how identical twins are formed. An egg, fertilized from a single sperm, splits into two, creating two people with identical DNA. You’re thinking of fraternal twins, where two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperm.
minus-squareFalscherFuchs@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoso i just read the wikipedia article and i don’t udnerstand what it says. i’ll stick with my missconception xD /s obv
That’s not how identical twins are formed. An egg, fertilized from a single sperm, splits into two, creating two people with identical DNA. You’re thinking of fraternal twins, where two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperm.
wait what
so i just read the wikipedia article and i don’t udnerstand what it says. i’ll stick with my missconception xD
/s obv