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identical twin

同卵双胞胎,同卵双胞,同卵双生,同卵双生子

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.

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  • Davis notes that our immune system is highly plastic and responsive to past experiences—so much so that 70% of its measurable components differ between identical twins just a couple of years after birth.

  • Any differences in the health of identical twins were thought to be due to different environmental exposures.

  • The new findings, though, suggest that genetic changes might also explain why identical twins aren’t truly identical.

  • Researchers in Iceland recruited 381 pairs of identical twins.

  • The package is a follow-up to NASA’s Twins Study, which compared Scott Kelly to his earthbound identical twin brother, fellow astronaut Mark Kelly, as Scott spent most of a year in space.

  • Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.

  • The cap devices on thousands of identical hats glinted in the late morning sun along with the shields worn by each of the cops.

  • Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

  • Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

  • The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.

  • This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.

  • These granules are identical with the corresponding granules in the leukocytes just described.

  • Severe secondary anemia sometimes gives an identical picture.

  • The twin whirlpools threatened the affrightened mariner on either side.

  • Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness.