what is the difference between fraternal twins and paternal twins?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as paternal twins.

There are fraternal and identical.

Fraternal occur when the mother has two eggs that are fertilized at the same time. They can be boy/boy, girl/girl or boy/girl.

Identical twins occur when the egg splits into two embryos after it has been fertilized. They have to be of the same sex.

Answer 2

Fraternal Twins Definition

Answer 3

Paternal Twins

Answer 4

Fraternal twins are when two eggs are fertilized at the same time, and both survive. I've never heard of paternal twins, especially since "paternal" means "fatherly." You may be thinking of identical twins. That is where a fertilized egg splits. Because the single fertilized egg had all the same DNA, the identical twins will be just alike also. Fraternal twins can be very different, even a boy and girl, because the DNA they received is different.

Answer 5

Don't know what a Paternal twin is, but Identical twins are split from the same egg that is impregnated with one sperm. Fraternal twins are two eggs that come down from the ovaries at the same time, they have two different zygotes that are impregnated with two different sperm and then the babies develop at the same time in the womb. They don't share identical traits because they have individual chromasomes.

Answer 6

all of the answers here seem to be correct .....just never forget to include all possibilities and the easiest way to remember them is ... Fraternal pertains in all ways to the possibilities by the mother , 1 egg that splits after fertilization and 2 seperate eggs.. Because of social norms we assume that all twins are of the same father and mother and the common occurance of paternal twins in the animal kingdom seems to be beneath us as humans. To the advanced student of the Bible you will find the earliest documentation of Paternal twins being Cain and Abel Cain being of his father the devil and Abel the first offspring in the lineage of Adam to Christ. Yes the original sin was sexual and the conception of Cain was to one father and the conception of Abel was to Adam. This illustrates the need to keep an open mind to all the possibilities...don t stop short

Answer 7

I think you mean fraternal and IDENTICAL twins, because paternal means just having to do with the father, which I don't understand how that compares to the definition of fraternal twins.

Identical twins are just that: identical. Since they are split from the same exact egg, they are almost mirror-images of each other, down to the last freckle. Of course, not all identical twins are IDENTICAL-identical, but many are awfully close. In the case of a male twin and a female twin, they can't legitimately look identical because they're of different genders, but they'll often look like brother and sister to a stranger's eye.

Fraternal twins are the type of twins that are by definition two people born during the same birth, but do not look very similar since their mother had two individual eggs fertilized during conception. In the case of same-gender twins, the two will have different physical features, from hair to nose to weight to height to body shape, which results from being two different eggs in the first place. It's just like two examples of all the different possible combinations of the mother and father's DNA.

Answer 8

I have never heard the term ,paternal twin, until today. But the explanation stating that twins have two separate fathers is plausible. Certainly this has occurred on rare occasions.

Answer 9

Ironically the best answer is as clueless as the rest. Go talk to a vet or rancher. Two eggs, two fathers. One woman, one pregnancy. Does it not occur to anyone a woman having sex with two men close together in time can have one egg fertilized by one mans sperm and the other egg fertilized by the other man? She carries the paternal twins who are naturally born close together in time. From the DNA tests one could prove she carried twins in a single pregnancy from two different fathers. This happens raising cattle when more than one bull roams the fields. It can also happen with humans.

To state "There is no such thing as paternal twins" then be voted best answer indicates people should refrain from answering questions without knowledge and others should do their own research before believing them. Kinda of hard on the credibility factor don't you think?

Answer 10

Paternal twins have different father's.