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monozygotic twin

NOUN
  1. either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material)

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  • Since this type of dermatoglyphic model is based on an analysis of genetically identical individuals (monozygotic twins), it provides a marker for prenatal environmental causality independent of genetic causality.
  • The monozygotic twin material consisted of both concordant and discordant twin pairs, and some unpaired healthy twins.
  • However, these studies may have overestimated the effect of genetics if monozygotic twins share exposure to more environmental effects than dizygotic twins do.
  • There are many instances recorded in Earth history of apparent telepathic links between monozygotic twins, but fewer of such links between heterozygotic twins, who are born together but are genetically different. Spock Must Die
  • Another result concerning handedness of the progeny of discordant monozygotic twins suggests that lefties are one gene apart from righties.
  • But births of monozygotic twins are rare, roughly one in 300. Separated At Birth. Really.
  • Classical liberals (libertarians, basically) accept that only monozygotic twins are “created equal” and that even these will diverge as they mature. The Volokh Conspiracy » 4. On a Bus in Kiev
  • Two well conducted and well controlled studies show that refractive errors are much more strongly correlated in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins.
  • Monozygotic twins , on the other hand , arise from the same fertilized egg.
  • These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins.
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