If identicle twins had babies?

Question

If a set of identicle twin girls had children witha set of twin boys, would their children be exactly the same? If you get what I mean? lol. I know this is a silly question but I have always wondered it.

I never knew anyone av=ctually did ask this question lol. And I mean the fathers would be identicle twins and so would the mothers. I am curious too because I am a twin myself.

Oh look at me with my bad spelling! sorry!! I'm a bit tired x

Right let me clarify this...I have confused people I think-If a set of identicle twins had children with another set of identicle twins, meaning the twins married into the same family and would have the same father and mother in law. See now I'm confusing myself!!

Answer 1

there DNA would be as close as brother sister rahter than cousins if thats what you are askin i think most ppl dont understand whata identical twin is ...they are EXACTLY the same DNA so there fore if 2 sets of identical twin have babies together there kids would have DNA so closely related that it would be almost impossible to tell if they were brothers or cousins

Answer 2

The simple answer is no. Even if the 2 girls shared the same partner the 2 sets of identical twins wouldn't be identical just similar in the way 2 sisters are similar but not identical. This is because the genes are mixed differently each time. Sorry nice idea.

Answer 3

Well, No because they will also take traits and diff. looks and things from the father so Nonot necesarilly they might look a little close to twins but probably not because they still get the fathers looks. Twins are usualy really cute though :) there is some twin guys at my school they are sorta hott....

Answer 4

No, their children would be different. To try to give an analogy to explain the genetics, take 2 sets of numbered balls, one white, one black, and choose each number at random so you had a 50/50 chance of number 1 being white/black, 50/50 chance of number 2 being white/black. You would end up with a chain of balls of black and white.

If you repeated this again, you would be using the same balls but you would get a different sequence of balls (representing genes in this example, meaning that the second kid would be different to the first).

Answer 5

Genetic characteristics can bounce generations. the two twins would have brown eyes, yet John and Jim's mom would have blue eyes. the two John and Jim carry that gene for Blue eye's as a recessive trait. And say Barb and Sue's Dad had a gene for blue eyes. that would mean that the two between the offspring of the two gadgets of twins could have a 40% danger of passing that trait off onto their toddler, and a 60% danger of passing the brown eyes off to their toddler. That is going for chromosomal issues too. A recessive trait can floor. it somewhat is in basic terms a narrow danger that it may. in case you had the genetic makeup of the two gadgets of twins you ought to actual be sure the percentages of their toddlers being same. <3 technology.

Answer 6

Their children would have different genes, but a paternity test wouldn't be able to tell which children belong to whom.

The children would have a random selection of the genes from their mom and dad, which would be the same as their aunt and uncles DNA but the random selection would make the children different, as different as brothers and sisters are.

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Edited to add...as this gets confusing:

Let's call them FT1, FT2, MT1, MT2 (female twin one, female twin 2, male twin 1, male twin two)

FT1 and FT2 have identical DNA
MT1 and MT2 have identical DNA

If FT1 and MT1 have a baby it will receive a random selection of half the mother's and half of the father's DNA. We will call this baby BabyA

If FT1 and MT1 have a second child (different pregnancy) that child will have a different random selection of their parent's DNA. (BabyB)

They would be similar, but not the same. As you have of course, observed during your life, siblings are similar but not the same.

If FT2 and MT2 have a baby it will receive a random selection of gene's from both parents --which are the exact same genes are FT1 and MT1. But the same randomization would take place so this baby could never be identical to any other babies from either couple. (BabyC)

So BabyA and BabyC would have as much in common as any siblings (even though they are not), and a DNA test would not be able to tell which of the female twins was the mother, and which of the males the father.

Does that make more sense? Or less? I'm tired too.

Answer 7

Since identical twins share the same set of genes if two identical twin sisters and two identical twin brothers had kids their kids would look VERY similar. It would be fun to see.

Answer 8

the id twin mothers are physical clones of one another. the id twin fathers are physical clones of one another. if you are an identical twin, it means that only one egg was fertilized with only one sperm cell, and that somehow it split into two embryos, and that is why id twins are clones.

however, each sperm cell and each egg has a different set of genes. that is why everyone is different (other than clones). so the father, contributing his sperm cell to the mother, no matter that he is an id twin and that she is one too, doesn't mean that the baby produced by them will be identical to the baby produced by the other set of id twins. in fact, it just won't happen.

Answer 9

well i have thought about this
my aunts who are sisters married two guys that are brothers they werent twins though.
both couples had one child-one had a girl and one had a boy.
since they werent the same sex then you couldnt really compare them but they did look like siblings alot

i guess if two identicle twims had babies then they would pprebaly look alot alike but not exactly because the children could use some traits that their parents did not have but stil ran in their family

Answer 10

Oh my god, I started to answer and then I realised I had no idea. Sorry.

I guess it depends on a few other factors - but if it was all done at the same time too - yeah maybe. Bit bloody wierd though wouldn't it?!?!? And what if they were different sexes? Hello I'm Charles, here's my identical cousin Charlotte.