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Identical Twins: Monozygotic

By Janice VanCleave

The girls in the photo are examples of identical twins. The term identical twins  refers to a type of twinning, and describes how they form, not what they look like. While the girls look identical, they are not clones. They have physical differences, such as their fingerprints, which  may look identical, but the ridges are […]

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