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Meanings of fraternal twin in English

Kinship.

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Either of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs.

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Examples for "dizygotic twin"
Examples for "dizygotic twin"
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There was a similar difference in dizygotic twin pairs.
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The fractional fetal DNA concentrations for each individual fetus of the dizygotic twin pregnancies were determined.
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A large number of monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs with inflammatory bowel disease have been reported in western countries.
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It is also possible to determine the relative fractional fetal DNA concentrations for each fetus for dizygotic twin pregnancies.
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The heritability of COMP was determined by comparing correlation among 160 monozygotic and 349 dizygotic twin pairs.
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Usage of fraternal twin in English
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Delighted because she was glad to see her fraternal twin so happy.
A vote of confidence
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And resentment, doubt's fraternal twin.
End of Watch
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However, Galton did not propose the comparison between identical and fraternal twin resemblance which is the essence of the twin method.
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After all, there had been no fertility treatments and the only multiple birth family member was her grandmother, a fraternal twin.
Reuters
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For the Dutch study, researchers tracked 839 identical and 1,164 fraternal twin pairs from the age of 3 to the age of 12.
Reuters
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That results when fraternal twins share some portion of the same placenta.
Spider Bones
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They're fraternal twins and yet people can barely tell them apart.
Hush: a novel
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Fraternal twins, you'd never look at them and even think they were related.
Stand by your hitman
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Gabby and Lili Fiorello, the Twitter Twins, were fraternal twins in their grade.
Never Have I Ever
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To test this she focused on twin studies using both identical and fraternal twins.
The Irish Times
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In the laboratory, they were unchanged for fraternal twins, but increased for identical twins.
Pubmed
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They looked very much alike, which was hardly surprising, given that they were fraternal twins.
Beginnings
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They were fraternal twins, and therefore not genetically identical.
The Alchemyst
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Fraternal twins, yet they still looked very much alike.
Book One: Apotheosis
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Like all siblings, fraternal twins share about 50% of their genes.
The Guardian
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Jessie and Melanie were fraternal twins, as different in looks as they were in temperament.
Day by day
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