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ühemunarakukaksikud

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ID 731863 Last modified 02.03.2017
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Domain genetics & eugenics
  • ühest ja samast viljastatud munarakust arenenud kaksikud, kellel on samad pärilikkustegurid
  • kaksikud, kes arenevad ühe spermi viljastatud ühest munarakust, kui idulane jaguneb arengu algperioodil kaheks. Need kaksikud on alati ühesoolised, pärilikult ja välimuselt ühesugused.
  • two offsprings developed from one zygote or fertilized ovum, and therefore having identical genomes
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  • Vt ka kirje „dizygotic twins - disügootsed kaksikud“. [2.03.2017]
monosügootsed kaksikud
ühemunakaksikud
identsed kaksikud
monozygotic twins
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  • The proband-wise concordance rates for definite RLS were 53.7% and 15.4% for monozygotic and dizygotic twins, respectively, ...
uniovular twins
identical twins
Good to know
  • A non-technical name for monozygotic twins. It is a misleading term, avoided in careful scientific usage, because monozygotic twins, though similar, are never identical, phenotype being influenced not only by genetic but also by environmental factors.

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