This is an extremely rare occurrence in humans and is known as heteropaternal superfecundation. But one study estimated that it might occur in as many as one in 0. Another study reported that among non-identical twins whose parents had been involved in paternity suits the frequency was 2. The odds of one sperm fertilising an egg during one instance of intercourse are actually rather small. So the chances of two sperm cells from different males being successful are even smaller, relying on a culmination of timing and superb reproductive biology.
Paternity testing after twins are born Fraternal twins already look different from one another, since they are born from two different eggs fertilized with two different sperm, so there's no quick way to determine if they are from different fathers. Prenatal paternity testing Amniocentesis and CVS are two invasive prenatal tests that are almost never performed for paternity testing.
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According to test results announced by the Genetic Association of Vietnam, a set of two-year-old Vietnamese twins have been found to carry the DNA of one mother but two different fathers. Ordinarily, a woman becomes pregnant because one of her eggs has been fertilized by sperm.
Identical twins occur if that fertilized egg divides into two separate eggs, early in the pregnancy. Fraternal twins occur when the woman simultaneously releases multiple eggs that become fertilized by different sperm from the same man. Apparently, her character is a bit ditzy — a classic romcom trope.
But this ditziness will lead to what I am fairly sure will become a new romcom trope: heteropaternal superfecundation. He explains that heteropaternal superfecundation occurs when a woman gives birth to twins with different biological fathers. Once you can get past all the polysyllables, the romcom possibilities are endless: mistaken identity, twins who look comically different see Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Twins , competing suitors. Although rare in humans, heteropaternal superfecundation is common in dogs, cats and cows, Carroll explains.
That is one way to look at it.
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