{"id":477,"date":"2021-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=477"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:34:47","slug":"27-twin-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"27- Twin Types"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 27- Twin Types\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/53ijg6lbpQItVt4ad1P5JN\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re always taught that twins can either be identical or non-identical. But what is the basis for this? And is there ever a situation where twin type is not quite so binary?<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Davis, N., the Guardian (2019), Scientists stunned by discovery of &#8216;semi-identical&#8217; twins (online) [Accessed 07\/02\/2021]. 2) Author unknown, BBC (2019), Semi-identical twins &#8216;identified for only the second time&#8217; (online) [Accessed 07\/02\/2021]. 3) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Twin (online) [Accessed 08\/02\/2021].<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re always taught that twins can either be identical or non-identical. But what is the basis for this? And is there ever a situation where twin type is not quite so binary? Sources for this episode: 1) Davis, N., the Guardian (2019), Scientists stunned by discovery of &#8216;semi-identical&#8217; twins (online) [Accessed 07\/02\/2021]. 2) Author unknown, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;27- Twin Types&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}