Dizygotic Definition

Dizygotic Sentence Examples

• Identical twins are also called monozygotic, and non-identical, dizygotic or fraternal.

• Q. One of my dizygotic twins has died at 25 weeks, what are the risks for the surviving twin?

• Fraternal twins are referred to as dizygotic twins, meaning that two unions of two gametes or male/female sex cells occurred to produce two separate embryos.

• Twinning seems to run in some families, is mainly confined to fraternal (dizygotic twins) and seems to be entirely a property of the mother, not the father.

• Fraternal, or dizygotic, twins occur when the mother produces two eggs in one monthly cycle and both eggs are fertilized.