are she and cynthia identical or fraternal twins?
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laforge1701 — 21 years ago(February 08, 2005 08:07 PM)
http://brittanydanielonline.com/image_gallery/details.php?image_id=83
Look at that photo, and then tell me which one is brit, and which one is her sister. -
hmichs — 21 years ago(March 10, 2005 12:13 PM)
But apparently Brittany's name is hard to spell. Lol..I'm totally kidding..don't take that to heart. If there weren't so many ways to spell brittany it would be so much easierbritney, brittany, britteny..and the rest
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Van_Chick — 21 years ago(March 17, 2005 02:39 AM)
They look a lot alike, but unless Cynthia had some sort of disease I would say they are fraternal twins because there's an inch height difference.
BTW dade141394, can you point out in the bio where it says they are identical? I saw the bio, but I may not be looking in the right place. -
P3charmed — 21 years ago(March 17, 2005 08:33 AM)
they cannotbe identical, obviously because they arent identical. the fact that they are different in hieght says they have a different gene make up, proving that their DNA is not a match. They are the same type of twins as Mary-Kate and Ashley. they look a lot a like, and carry a grand handful of characteristics but they 5b4are definitly not identical.
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rtyall — 21 years ago(March 17, 2005 01:53 PM)
Environmental conditions can have just as dramtic an effect on height, etc. As well as what you eat, what diseases/ailments you've contracted, accidents, etc.
Often identical twins differ slightly from each other, becoming more and more noticable with age. -
marksgirl — 20 years ago(November 07, 2005 11:42 PM)
I know this is REALLY belated but thanks for everyone who responded to this.(I'm the initial poster). I suppose it's true that they ARE identical twins. hehe, I ended up losing the bet but in the end that guy I made it with never collected on the lunch, so yay!!
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nadjadee-1 — 21 years ago(March 22, 2005 11:10 PM)
Hi everyone. Well, I worked as the camera assistant with Cynthia and Brittany for almost 2 years, and got to know them pretty well. I can tell you, from them directly, they are identical twins, not fraternal. As to the "rumored" height differenceI dont know whats up with that. But they are identical, Cynthia once talked about it to me.
At the time of Sweet Valley High, it was interesting to note that Cynthia smoked, but was a vegetarian. While Brittany didnt smoke but she ate meat.
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hmichs — 21 years ago(March 30, 2005 12:48 PM)
Just because the word "identical" is used doesn't mean you are supposed to use the extreme definition of the word. Sure they have the same dna but it's still different. For example, if someone murders a kid and the murderer has an identical twin, through forensics you can determine which twin is the murderer through dna. There is so much variation in human dna and characteristics that even identical twins will have some differences.
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Van_Chick — 21 years ago(March 30, 2005 11:49 PM)
Actually hmichs, that's incorrect.
Identical twins have identical DNA. For forensics to work they look at other factors in samples such as medications that one twin may take but not the other.
Fraternal twins can also look very much alike so it's hard to tell. The only way to know that the twin are identical without doing a DNA is to look at the placenta but that only works about 5% of the time correctly according to my doctor friend.
Most twins never know or just assume that they are identical because they look alike, so it could be that Brittany and Cynthia don't know and just assume th1354ey are. Apparently many twins get an inexpensive DNA test done out of curiosity to see for sure. If they don't see a genetic variance they are identical. My friend has done a few of these tests for multiple births and remembers a couple sets that were told all along that they were identical and looked so much alike but were found to be fraternal. She remembered reading too that statistics in North America are that about only 1/5 sets of multiple births is accurate in assuming whether or not they are identical.
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Van_Chick — 21 years ago(March 31, 2005 10:23 PM)
It's nearly impossible for them to know 100% whether or not the twins are identical or fraternal when pregnant.
One way to tell maybe if they're identical without DNA is that there is just one placenta for identical twins. However, some fraternal twins also have just one placenta and identical twins can have two placentas. Thus a true measure of assumption is, if there is one placenta and the twins appear identical they are more likely to be identical than fraternal. The easiest way to tell if they're fraternal is obviously if they look nothing alike or are of opposite sex.
However, no doctor will ever tell you what kind of twins you have to a certainty without a DNA test. My friend's clinic does them for $185 CDN. They swab their mouths and send the samples to a laboratory.
It's also roughly that 75% of twins are fraternal and only 25% are identical.