Many think that being
identical twins refers to how twins look and not how they form.
Not exact matches
Correction: In describing J. Michael Bailey's study of
identical -
twin pairs in his «Same - Sex Science» (February), Stanton L. Jones should have
referred to 41 rather than 42 pairs studied.
While many people are familiar with the terms «
identical» and «fraternal» in describing multiples, and use these terms to define whether
twins or triplets look similar, what they are really
referring to is how the multiples form.
The term is generally used to
refer to artificial human cloning; human clones in the form of
identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction.
Each person can have about 100 million different receptors,
referred to as their T cell repertoire, with little overlap even in
identical twins.
Sometimes this term can
refer to «natural» clones made either when an organism is asexually reproduced by chance (as with
identical twins), but in common parlance, a clone is an
identical copy created intentionally.
I often
referred to Kain as one of my triplets as he was raised aside of my
identical twin daughters, only months separating him and Eva and Mia in age.