Monozygotic (identical) twins arise when a single egg, ferti…
Monozygotic (identical) twins arise when a single egg, fertilized by a single sperm, divides early in development, giving rise to two genetically identical embryos. A recent study examined two monozygotic twins in which one of the twins had trisomy 21 and the other twin had two normal copies of the 21 chromosome. Explain how two identical twins could differ in their number of chromosomes.
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