Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Quick Thought

Apparently "zygosity" is a real word. I bet you've always wondered. Any guesses to what it means?

3 comments:

Amy said...

something to do with enzymes

Dylan said...

I'm going to get all brainy and say that it has something to do with a fertilized egg. Maybe how far along it is?

Dave L said...

Dylan, you're good. And Amy, since pretty much everything in the body has to do with enzymes you are probably right.

I read it in a genetic study on twins talking about what kind of twins they were. In context it was somthing like this: 17 were monozygotic, 16 were dizygotic, and 1 was of unknown zygosity.