What Is Artificial Embryo Twinning?Embryo twinning is the process of fertilizing an egg cell, and then dividing the embryo into two separate embryos when it is no more than just a few cells multiplying to grow into a fetus. Since the two embryos were split from the same zygote, they are genetically identical, down to the last nucleotide of their DNA. This process follows a procedure that is based off of the process of how naturally made and born twins come to be.
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How Is It Done?Artificial embryo twinning is done by the same process as naturally born twins are, except it occurs outside of the uterus. In order to do so, one must manually separate an early embryo into individual cells, and then leave each cell to divide and grow by itself. The resulting embryos are placed into a surrogate mother (the mother chosen to carry and birth the twins), where they are carried for their time and then eventually delivered. The embryos came from the same zygote, so they are genetically identical ("WHAT").
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