Postby JasonPratt » Tue May 29, 2007 11:53 am
Actually yes, identical twins are essentially clones.
So all those things in sci-fi novels and comic books and films about clones? Not a big deal. We have them already. {g}
My brother married a twin (non-identical). And I myself am a surviving twin; my mother having lost my twin by miscarriage early in her pregnancy. (Probably not identical, since then we would _probably_ be sharing the same placenta or whatever. It's kind of fun to think I might be a clone, however... {g!})
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