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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Why don't we refer to twins and triples as a litter?

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Why don't we refer to twins and triples as a litter?

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Technically they’re littermates…

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They’re not clones though. For one, a clone has one parent and it’s dna is identical to it’s parent. Twins have two parents and their dna is only identical to each other.
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  So they’re copies of each other?
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