Identical twins

Lamp

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Anyone watching the programme on BBC1 ? Very interesting

Did you see the look those two Chinese babies gave eachother when they were brought together ? Amazing !

One scientist made a study of identical twins over many years and they developped idential ageing features anatomically - he reckons as soon as the sperm & egg fuse DNA then from that moment on, the colour of your 63rd eyebrow hair will go gray at the same time as your identical twin. ie everything's predetermined
 

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Saw some of it, will iplayer it later, looks really interesting.
 

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Anyone watching the programme on BBC1 ? Very interesting

Did you see the look those two Chinese babies gave eachother when they were brought together ? Amazing !

One scientist made a study of identical twins over many years and they developped idential ageing features anatomically - he reckons as soon as the sperm & egg fuse DNA then from that moment on, the colour of your 63rd eyebrow hair will go gray at the same time as your identical twin. ie everything's predetermined

Not exactly. Everything your DNA decides, yes, that's fixed, apart from situations ofcourse where your DNA is damaged. For instance nuclear radiation can do that.

RNA however can differ within identical twins resulting in small differences like one of the twins could be half an inch taller, or the other has a mole on his or her arm the first one doesn't. Stuff like that.
 

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Well the guy who made the comment in the TV programme that was a professor of DNA (or something like that), so he obviously didn't know what he was talking about
 

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Well the guy who made the comment in the TV programme that was a professor of DNA (or something like that), so he obviously didn't know what he was talking about

Obviously not.

Which isn't a big f*cking surprise now is it :p

As far as i remember, "reckon" isn't a scientific edium any more then "guess".

Ofcourse there's the chance that Lamp understood it wrong and reckoned it's all predetermined, which would be rather occams razorish.
 

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