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dizygotic

ADJECTIVE
  1. derived from two separately fertilized eggs
    dizygotic twins

How To Use dizygotic In A Sentence

  • The researchers tested for genetic influences by comparing the experiences of monozygotic twins, who share all their genes, and dizygotic twins, who share considerably fewer genes.
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  • In contrast, we present here evidence for cognitive “specialist genes”: monozygotic twins are more similar than dizygotic twins in the specific cognitive ability of face perception. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Is Facial Recognition A Non-g Factor Mental Module?
  • The concordance rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder is also higher for monozygotic twins than it is for dizygotic twins which suggest that there is a genetic component to this disease.
  • These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins.
  • Obviously, the twins resulting from superfecundation are dizygotic.
  • The mother assumed that she had given birth to fraternal twins (dizygotic, from two eggs) and not "identical" ones (monozygotic, two embryos developed from a single fertilized egg). Separated At Birth. Really.
  • A study published in the current issue of Journal of Personality studied adult male monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins to find that difference in religiousness are influenced by both genes and environment. Genetics and the Future of Religion, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Each of three measures of face-specific processing was heritable, i.e., more correlated in monozygotic than dizygotic twins: face-specific recognition ability, the face-inversion effect [2], and the composite-face effect [3]. Is Facial Recognition A Non-g Factor Mental Module?
  • Twin studies have shown that the incidence of asthma is significantly higher in monozygotic twins than dizygotic twins 27-29.
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