Sentences with phrase «less formed twin»

Parasitic twins refer to a type of conjoined twins that develop asymmetrically, with a smaller, less formed twin dependent on the stronger, larger twin.

Not exact matches

A new study of twins suggests that attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is strongly linked to genes, and that it is less a clear - cut disorder than an extreme form of a trait, like blood pressure, that varies throughout the population.

But because stellar - formation models assume that identical twins form more or less simultaneously, the discovery «tells us that there may be something fundamental about the stellar birth process that we still don't understand,» Stassun says.

Researchers using data from Hubble's now - retired Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) have identified two types of blue stragglers in Messier 30: those that form in near head - on collisions with one another and those that are in twin (or binary) systems where the less massive star siphons «life - giving» hydrogen from its more massive companion.

Cape Town - based artist Athi - Patra Ruga's eye - tingling triptych, The Night of the Long Knives I - III (2013), forms part of Coetzee's group exhibition All Things Being Equal..., which also includes lens - based work by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, American Rashid Johnson, Briton Isaac Julien, and lesser - known South Africans such as twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, Mohau Modisakeng, and Thania Petersen.