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-square56fedilinkarrow-up1426arrow-down113
arrow-up1413arrow-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-square56fedilink
minus-squareFalscherFuchs@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up5·edit-21 year agothe brother was the second sperm that entered the egg
minus-squareAnticorplinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down3·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-squarefunkpandemic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoNormal: 1 egg + 1 sperm make 1 person Identical twins: 1 egg + 1 sperm make 2 person
minus-squareMuffinHeeler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoFraternal (non identical twins): 2 eggs + 2 sperms make 2 person
minus-squareAnticorplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI edited my comment with more details at the same time you were responding. Check above.
minus-squareFalscherFuchs@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up2·1 year agothank you. now i understand :)
minus-squareFalscherFuchs@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up2arrow-down11·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
the brother was the second sperm that entered the egg
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
Normal: 1 egg + 1 sperm make 1 person
Identical twins: 1 egg + 1 sperm make 2 person
Fraternal (non identical twins): 2 eggs + 2 sperms make 2 person
I edited my comment with more details at the same time you were responding. Check above.
thank you. now i understand :)
so i just read the wikipedia article and i don’t udnerstand what it says. i’ll stick with my missconception xD
/s obv