How many people wonder what it’s like if there was another one of you in this world? Have you ever wanted a clone, someone who thinks like you, looks like you, feels like you, or someone who you just have a close bond with because it simply comes down to your genes? There is no closer bond or relationship between two people besides being twins. Since birth, you’ve shared pretty much everything together; your parents, your birthday, and the same womb where the first instincts of bonding start. Today, approximately 32 of every 1000 people are twins. This number has increased from the past numbers. I believe this is because the twin gene in people are increasing. There is definitely a twin gene that you must have in order to reproduce twins yourself. …show more content…
This means that their ovaries are more stimulated and more likely to produce more eggs at a time. The more times you’ve previously been pregnant, the more likely you are to conceive twins. Heredity is a major factor in conceiving twins. If the mother is a twin herself, has twin siblings or children, then she has a higher rate of conceiving twins. African American woman have the highest rate of conceiving twins and Asians have the lowest. There are procedures that can stimulate your ovaries to produce more eggs for fertility to help conceive twins. The type of twins you have are determined by the fertilization process, which in some ways can affect their physical appearance, and their type of relationship. I’m here to discuss the difference or misconceptions about fraternal twins and identical twins. Hopefully this paper will give you a full understanding of what it means to be Fraternal and Identical. Being a Fraternal twin myself, I get a lot of confusion to why my sister and I are what we are. Us being Fraternal, I also favor my twin type over Identical …show more content…
Twins of opposite sex make up 1/3 of twins. Most Fraternal twins have a different physical appearance. They share common traits, but don’t look exactly alike. They sometimes differ from height, weight, face shape, and body structure. These type of twins are seen more like siblings, looks wise. However, not all fraternal twins look noticeably different. Some of them look so much alike, that they could be called identical. However, their physical appearance is not the leading factor in making them Identical. My sister and I look very different. We don’t have the same skin color, height, face shape, eyes, lips, and a few other things in common. Many people don’t believe that we’re twins when we tell them. They think we are cousins, because they do see some of the physical features that we share. So it can be inferred that fraternal twins may or may not have the same physical