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identical twins, exactly alike?
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The word identical is known to indicate something that is exactly the same or essentially alike. When paired with the word twins, the automatic assumption is two people that not only look exactly alike, but are also the same in personality and behavior. The scientific terminology for identical twins is monozygotic twins. Monozygotic twins result from one egg fertilized by one sperm. The zygote (egg) undergoes cell multiplication and divides itself into two exact genetic copies (Cassill 27).
The two fetuses share 100% of the same genes which results in identical physical characteristics such as, hair and eye color, approximately the same weight and height, blood type, etc. Because of the strikingly similar physical features identical
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