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Describe and evaluate theories and empirical studies in the Biological Perspective.  

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Describe and evaluate theories and empirical studies in the Biological Perspective This essay will be dealing on the topic of empirical studies, and will be discussing them and also evaluating them. The study that will be discussed are the Twin Studies. On the discussion of the twin studies, we know that monozygotic twins (MZs) share 100 per cent of their genes, and we also know that dizygotic twins (DZs) only share 50 per cent of their genetic material on average, this is the basis of the twin study. The first type of twin study there is involves the comparing the similarity of MZs and the DZs, which have experienced a similar environment. A reason for this being a study is because if the MZs, who share all their genes as well as having a similar environment, are more similar than DZs, showing that this is influential evidence pointing towards the important of...

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