I know its kind of dumb, but I have always wondered that!!!
If a set of guy twins met a set of girl twins and if one guy and one girl twin paired up & they had sex at the same time and both couples got pregnant would their kids be identical cousins?
2006-11-09 12:08:26 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
you have a great imagination... i loved your question.. i dont know the scientific answer.. but couldnt help compliment you on your question..
2006-11-09 12:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Badmaash 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow what a great question! I'm assuming that you're talking about 2 sets of identical twins, not non-identical twins that happen to be the same sex.
Here goes...We each have 46 chromosomes (sort of like sets of instructions) and they give us our eye color, hair color, body shape and all kinds of other things. We get 23 from our mom and 23 from our dad.
In identical twins, the two twins have the same 46 sets of instructions. But not every egg that a woman makes or every sperm that a man produces has the same 23 chromosomes. My son, David, has brown eyes and I have blue eyes. That means that I gave Dave a blue eyed gene (single instruction) and his dad gave a brown eyed gene. But all of our other kids have blue eyes, which means that some of their dad's sperm had the blue eyed instruction.
Since mom and dad each only give 1/2 the chromosomes, 2 children from two different sets of identical twins wouldn't be identical (although there might be the teeniest tiniest possibility that both eggs from both moms and both sperm that fertilize those two eggs have the same chromosomes- Would anyone out there like to figure out the statistical probability of that??) because the chromosomes wouldn't be the same.
Does that make sense? However, they would look like siblings from the same family and might even look almost like twins!
Once again, congratulations on a terrific question!!
2006-11-09 12:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by Shoshanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those identical twins have the same genes - but remember, they have BOTH dominant and recessive genes. They might be carriers for traits that they themselves don't have - but their offspring might.
So they will NOT be identical cousins because you cannot say for sure if both of the twins will be passing on the same exact traits or not. They will probably just look alike.
Good question.
2006-11-09 12:25:34 · answer #3 · answered by Cookie On My Mind 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered that also.. maybe i'm dumb too, but i've always wanted to know if their kids would come out identical lol. I know a set of twins that had kids, and eventhough they're husbands weren't related their kids do resemble eachother.. so its possible that they might look a bit like eachother, but i don't believe they'll be identical..
2006-11-09 12:17:01 · answer #4 · answered by ☆Karma☆ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. it'll depends on how the embyro develops after it's been fertilised. having identical twins has something to do with genes (hereditary) but being 2 sets of identical twins doesnt necessarily mean you'll get another set of identical twins. of course chances are there not definite.
2006-11-09 12:18:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are twins married to first counsins. None of our children look alike even brothers and sisters don't look alike. In fact usually most familys the children are all very different. Ours is no exception. This may sound strange but my other sister loved that family also and married another one of the counsins.
So our children are related on both sides. we were from California. And our children are similar but not alike.
Very different personalities.
2006-11-09 12:59:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Identical as in the same DNA make up, no...
Even with identical parents the variables of inheritance would make the cousins very very very unlikely to inherit identical DNA make-ups...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome
2006-11-09 13:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they would be alike but not exactly the same.
i am a twin but to a boy and im a girl and people are always saying we look exactly the same which is weird to me.
i kno if i had kids i would not want them looking like my brothers cause that is just weird.
2006-11-09 14:48:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, their children will not be identical. There is a strong possibilty that they will strongly resemble one another. However there is a likelihood that they will produce twins
2006-11-09 17:34:39 · answer #9 · answered by juicie813 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. If you consider the sheer volume of possible genetic combinations the chances are actually pretty slim. That said, slim is not none and it would be pretty cool. But their children would certainly have similarities that would mark them as family.
2006-11-09 12:19:18 · answer #10 · answered by Charity S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
woowwww very good question i KnOW my friends mom is a twin and her kids and her twin sisters kids look exactly alike imagine if they were both twins wowwww i think they would look exactly alike
2006-11-09 12:14:40 · answer #11 · answered by la colombiana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋