Scimatics has puzzeled us with the challenge of answering the question, that remains quite confusing. The question is: Could cousins be twins? Now thats a pretty weird question, because you’d think that it is a definite no, but there is actually a minuscule chance of it happening in real life! Luca O, and I created a video made from the perspective of the girl who thinks her cousin could be her twin. Give it a watch and maybe that will help you understand the question and situation a bit more.
Now that you’ve seen the video and you understand the question a bit more, I explain the parts that make a little bit less sense. The first point that is really important to the question is: the parents of both of the cousins are twins. By this I mean that the uncle and the dad are identical twins and the aunt and the mom are twins. This means that 2 children born at the same time could have the possibility of being identical. The next point that is important is the steps to figuring out if they are or are not twins. The first step is the phenotype of the child. To figure out certain phenotypes of the children you would have to use a punnet square.
A punnet square is a way of showing the percentage of attaining a certain phenotype. We also used a punnet square to figure out the genotypes. Genotypes are the characteristics of a person on the inside! We also used Meiosis. Meiosis is a type of cell division that splits 2 chromosomes into 4 daughter cells. Once we were finished with the science we filmed and edited and in the end we figured out that there is a very small chance of this ever happening in real life, but it might just happen one day!…
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