Â· 4 years ago. A mutation is a change in the genetic material of an organism. We are made from trillions of cells, each with a nucleus composed of DNA â a set of instructions that tells the cell what to do. Cells copy themselves with astonishing accuracy, but every now and then a piece of code is copied incorrectly.
Identical (or monozygotic) twins happen when a fertilized egg splits into two separate babies-usually within the first twelve days of Mom's pregnancy. After twelve days, the egg may not split entirely and result in conjoined twins.
Artificial embryo splitting or embryo twinning, a technique that creates monozygotic twins from a single embryo, is not considered in the same fashion as other methods of cloning. During that procedure, an donor embryo is split in two distinct embryos, that can then be transferred via embryo transfer.