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Benedict Arnold

Can someone please explain the biology behind the creation of twins, triplets, etc, identical as well as non-identical?

Posted - March 12, 2019
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  • 44603
    Identical twins: One sperm cell, one egg. Egg splits into two embryos. Triplets, the same.
    Fraternal: Two eggs, two sperms, two different embryos.
      March 12, 2019 5:18 PM MDT
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  • What happens to those millions of sperm which failed to fertilise? 
      March 14, 2019 2:48 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    They die and are either absorbed in the uterus or are expelled. I'm not sure. I doubt if that question has ever been asked in all of history.
      March 14, 2019 3:42 PM MDT
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  • 34251
    They die.
      March 14, 2019 3:43 PM MDT
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  • And then what happens to them? Does the woman have the mechanism to deal with them? 
      March 14, 2019 3:47 PM MDT
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  • 34251
    Basically the woman's body removes them in several ways just a our bodies defend against a bacteria or virus.  Mucus layers and the immune system. Of about 200,000 only 200 will even reach the egg. 

    https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-sperm-once-theyre-inside-a-woman-1716992251
      March 14, 2019 4:02 PM MDT
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  • Thank you for the reference link  
      March 15, 2019 2:35 AM MDT
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  • I've just read the link and all I can say is Wow! What if I were pursued by 200 million men? 
      March 15, 2019 1:16 PM MDT
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  • 34251
    That would be exhausting.
      March 15, 2019 3:53 PM MDT
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  • Killing would be more like it. 
      March 15, 2019 5:14 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-sperm-once-theyre-inside-a-woman-1716992251
      March 14, 2019 10:48 PM MDT
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  • Thank you for the reference link. Although I cannot give a second Asker's Pick, I shall give you a virtual one  
      March 15, 2019 2:43 AM MDT
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  • I've just read the link and all I can say is Wow! What if I were pursued by 200 million men? 
      March 15, 2019 1:13 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    No, but I encourage you to use a search engine.
      March 12, 2019 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    If she did, I would not have the opportunity to show off.
      March 12, 2019 5:44 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I shall  have to call you Big Edd from now on then....:)D 
      March 12, 2019 6:25 PM MDT
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  • Witty, NJ 
      March 12, 2019 8:02 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I know....hehe 
      March 12, 2019 8:05 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Are you serious? That was my nickname on my first ship.
      March 13, 2019 8:23 AM MDT
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  • The egg splitting is something I need to look into further. The whole biology of reproduction is fascinating. 
      March 12, 2019 8:01 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    I am available for free reproduction lessons.  Call me.
      March 12, 2019 8:57 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    Well done.  My opinion of you just went up 34 points.
      March 12, 2019 8:56 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Excellent. Thank you.
      March 13, 2019 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 1893
    It starts with dinner when two people are feeling a bit Randy.  Wine, dinner and the evening progress's.  Viola the EPT stick about a month later shows you got lucky, or unlucky depending on ones point of view.

    You either have multiple eggs meeting with sperm, or the egg splits into twos or threes.  Your first clue is the meeting with the Ob and the ultra sound. We had the two eggs meeting the sperm.......

    Alternative method is the Petri Dish conception and implanting multiple eggs hoping one sticks to the womb, in a lot of cases multiple eggs stick.
      March 12, 2019 10:34 PM MDT
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