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Meanings of fraternal twins in English

Russian
многояйцовые близнецы
Spanish
gemelos dicigoticos
Catalan
bessons
Wikidata

Twins formed by two separate eggs fertilised by two separate sperms.

    многояйцовые близнецы
    Synonyms
    Examples for "dizygotic twins"
    Examples for "dizygotic twins"
    1
    Only nine pairs of dizygotic twins reared apart in Lishui were recruited.
    Pubmed
    2
    Otherwise, mortality for monozygotic and dizygotic twins did not consistently differ after age 6.
    Pubmed
    3
    The doctors told my mother she was expecting dizygotic twins, more commonly called fraternal twins.
    Bloodthirsty
    4
    A genome-wide linkage analysis was performed on the dizygotic twins using a modified version of the Haseman-Elston method.
    Pubmed
    5
    There were 580 monozygotic twins, 664 dizygotic twins and 333 of their siblings.
    Pubmed
    1
    Identical twins, who share 100 percent of their DNA, had more similar populations of gut microbes than did non-identical twins.
    Wired
    2
    They focused on sun-seeking behaviour and genetics and found that identical twins were more likely to have a similar behaviour than non-identical twins.
    Independent.ie
    Usage of fraternal twins in English
    1
    That results when fraternal twins share some portion of the same placenta.
    Spider Bones
    2
    They're fraternal twins and yet people can barely tell them apart.
    Hush: a novel
    3
    Gabby and Lili Fiorello, the Twitter Twins, were fraternal twins in their grade.
    Never Have I Ever
    4
    To test this she focused on twin studies using both identical and fraternal twins.
    The Irish Times
    5
    In the laboratory, they were unchanged for fraternal twins, but increased for identical twins.
    Pubmed
    6
    They looked very much alike, which was hardly surprising, given that they were fraternal twins.
    Beginnings
    7
    They were fraternal twins, and therefore not genetically identical.
    The Alchemyst
    8
    Like all siblings, fraternal twins share about 50% of their genes.
    The Guardian
    9
    Jessie and Melanie were fraternal twins, as different in looks as they were in temperament.
    Day by day
    10
    In that instant, she and Lily looked as though they might have been fraternal twins.
    Cold Days
    11
    The doctors told my mother she was expecting dizygotic twins, more commonly called fraternal twins.
    Bloodthirsty
    12
    And finally, there is a higher rate of hyperactivity and restlessness between identical twins than between fraternal twins.
    It's nobody's fault: new hope and help for difficult children an...
    13
    What if they were fraternal twins?
    G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
    14
    I open my mouth to explain how we're just fraternal twins, but Orson stops me with a look.
    Desert places: a novel of terror
    15
    This began with a pivotal study, which showed that identical twins shared more similar political opinions than fraternal twins.
    BBC
    16
    The two competing cameras have similar lenses, use the same battery, and look like cousins, if not fraternal twins.
    Wired
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