• Question: How are conjoined twins formed?

    Asked by younggamer to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      The more generally accepted theory is ‘fusion’, in which a fertilized egg completely separates, but stem cells (which search for similar cells) find like-stem cells on the other twin and fuse the twins together

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