Oh, forgot about your other question.
I dont know much about that, but an interesting question. From a quick
look aroung it seems that you can have two chicks from one double-yolk
egg, and they would be seperate. Conjoined or 'Siamese' twins dont
usually result from eggs and neither do monozygotic twins (i.e. both
from the same egg). When two eggs are released at the same time, they
can both be fertilised and the chicken's egg producing organs seal them
both up in the same shell. Apparently, they usually dont both survive,
or both of them are small.
Scott.
Free Spirit wrote:
> Hi Scott.
>> Thanks for your answer and the information about the websites. By the way,
> the DNA of identical twins are the same, can the temperature and nutrition
> change it?
>> Another question that sometimes occurs to me is about double-yolk eggs. If
> such an egg is hatched, does it turn out to be a attached two chicks or a
> chick with two heads?
>> Thanks for your time.
>> ZR
>>> in article EGbwb.24237$aT.12411 at news-server.bigpond.net.au, Scott Coutts at
>scott.coutts at med.monash.edu.au wrote on 11/23/03 6:47 PM:
>>>>Hiya Free Spirit,
>>>>The short answer is: No, they dont have the same finger prints!
>>>>They're very similar, but your finger print is not solely defined by
>>your genetics. It is mostly, but small parts of it are defined by your
>>environment. For example, the temperature and nutrition can change your
>>prints. Anyhow, here's some info about it.
>>>>http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may2001/989606823.Ge.r.html>>http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980821.html>>>>If you do a google search for "fingerprint identical twins" then you'll
>>find more than you need on the topic (:
>>>>Bye!
>>>>
