fraternal twins
Non-identical wombmates born together
Fraternal twins are two offspring born from the same pregnancy but developed from separate fertilized eggs, making them no more genetically similar than any other siblings.
Unlike identical twins, who share all their DNA, fraternal twins can be different sexes and often look quite different from each other.
The term distinguishes them from identical twins in both casual conversation and medical contexts.
My fraternal twins have completely different personalities.
- dizygoticFrom two separate eggs
- twinsSiblings born simultaneously
- heterozygosityPaired unlike gene variants
- siblingsFellow offspring
- ovumFemale reproductive cell
prenatal development · genetic variation · genetic lottery · separate · brother · fertilization · gestation · due date · sister · sibling rivalry · obstetrics · non-identical · womb · baby bump · family · embryology · multiples · pair
- twin studiesidentical twins, monozygotic, dizygotic, zygosity, mirror twins
- twin tropesidentical twins, separated twins, mirror twins
- twin portraitsidentical twins, double portrait, side by side
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- Brothersbro, half brothers, brother-in-law, stepbrothers, half-brother
fraternal twinsidentical twins
Siblings from one zygote
clones · carbon copies · mirror twins · doppelgangers · conjoined twins