If two eggs are fertilsed you get fraternal twins whereas if one egg is fertilised and that develops into two individuals, you get identical twins.
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Identical twins are formed from a single egg that splits into two. Fraternal twins are formed from two separate eggs that are both separately fertilized. So identical twins have identical DNA, and fraternal twins do not.
Fraternal twins are more popular.
They are twins!
Twins are not necessarily identical. They can be fraternal as well. Identical twins result when one fertilized egg splits in two. Fraternal twins result from two fertilized eggs.
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