January 18, 2012
What’s it called when a person has a partially developed twin or foreign genetic material inside their body?
Category: Foreign Bodies
An undeveloped twin or foreign material from a twin in a person’s body.
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January 18th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
A person with more than one set of DNA is called a chimera.
EDIT: In a chimera, one twin’s genetic material is fully absorbed into the other twin. Different parts of the person’s body will have DNA from one or the other of the original twins.
If the other twin is still “alive”, it could be called a parasitic twin. It could be called a vanished twin if one twin dies in utero and part or all of it is absorbed into the body of the surviving fetus.
January 18th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
a parasitic twin because often it leeches onto the life functions of its twin, though it is not technicaly alive. thus the parasitic part