The school management on August 22 arranged a special interaction of the twins with the mediapersons, wherein, students expressed their feelings about being twins and the experiences they had had.
Jalandhar: Identity crisis among schoolchildren has a whole new meaning at Police DAV Public School here. Call it a coincidence or a sweet delight, the school has a whopping 42 sets of twins and two sets of triplets studying there.
The school management on August 22 arranged a special interaction of the twins with the mediapersons, wherein, students expressed their feelings about being twins and the experiences they had had.
Principal Rashmi Vij said it was a wonderful sight to see all these twins and triplets gathered at one place. She said some of them are identical twins. “The students shared their experiences with their twin siblings and what similarities and dissimilarities they had. The teachers also shared their experiences regarding teaching twins who happen to be in the same class. But to avoid any confusion, we have put the majority of the twins in different sections,” she added.
The principal said she wasn’t aware of the exact number of twins studying in the school, it was after someone asked them about the details regarding twin children in the school for his report, she asked all teachers to calculate the number of twins studying in their respective classes.
“When we got to know that we have 90 twins studying here, we too were left surprised,” she added.
How do twins occur
You may know someone who has twins, but do you know how twins occur and how they develop? There are two types of twins: identical and fraternal (non-identical).
Identical twins occur when a single embryo, created by the union of a sperm and an egg, divides into two embryos. Each embryo is monozygotic, genetically identical, and both will be the same sex. Depending on when the division occurs, identical twins may have separate placentas and gestational sacs, or they may share a single placenta but have separate sacs. In rare cases, identical twins may be in the same amniotic sac.
Non-identical twins occur when two separate eggs are each fertilized by a separate sperm. The two embryos that result are dizygotic, not genetically identical, and can be the same or different sex. Most of the time, this is the type of twinning that occurs from assisted reproduction procedures.
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