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Old 01-01-2011, 12:37 PM
nittanygirl nittanygirl is offline
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Originally Posted by agzg View Post
They're not triplets, they're a set of fraternal twins and a sibling. Identical twins/triplets/other multiples come from the same original zygote (it splits). Fraternal multiples come from two or more different zygotes and share the womb with one another.

Since the third didn't share the womb with the first two, she's a single. Saying they're triplets would be like saying my older brother and I are fraternal twins.
ohhh that makes more sense now that I reread it. First I was like, they created that many embryo's with the same genetic-makeup on purpose? *doh* on my part. lol
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