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What is twin-to-twin transfusion?
This is a condition affecting identical twins when the babies share a common placenta whil ....
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What is a genome?
A genome is an organism's complete set of genetic material. We are all made up of millions ....
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What are chromosomes?
Chromosomes can also be thought of as similar to a ball of wool - if you were to unravel t ....
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What is genetics?
The body is made up of millions of cells.Each body cell has copy of 46 chromosomes.The 46 ....
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What is epigenetics?
Even if two people have the same set of genes, because of the different environments they ....
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