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| Interbreeding Of Species Is Possible |
| Anyone think its possible to do this? Maybe its already been done / is happening as we speak? For example, the sperm from a horse in the egg of a...cat |
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It isn't possible because they are of completely different species, genus, order, class etc. The
only taxonomic classifications they share are kingdom and phylum which both belong to animalia and
cordata respectively. If you had a domestic cat and a leopard and they created offspring, then it
would be infertile because of major differences due to both sympatric and allopatric isolation
between the species. |
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Organisms can not produce offspring in a different organism.... The chromosomes do not match and can
not match....so they cant have children..in order to have children you would need a certain amount
of chromosomes from each parent...for example humans receive 23 chromosomes from each parent ..and
if one gives off less or more then the fetus will die, have a disorder or not even begin to develop |
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I believe that the definition of a 'species' is that an organism from a certain species can not
produce offspring with an organism from a different species.
Basically, the definition of species is that they can't interbreed. So I think not. |
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In terms of "breeding" (meaning sex) the chromosomes from the male and female parent have to split
and pair up, meaning they have to have approximately the same lengths and matching zones, in order
to make complete chromosomes which can grow into a healthy offspring. So if the two "species" are
closely related (like a donkey and a horse) they might indeed have successful offspring (a mule in
that case) but the offspring may have some sort of remaining problem from the fact the chromosomes
weren't 100% complete (in fact mules cannot breed and have offspring themselves).
However, a horse and a rabbit breeding would be impossible (sexually) not only because the
chromosomes won't pair up but also because the horse's tool would be too big.
Now in terms of science taking the DNA of one animal and splicing it in some way with DNA of another
I actually do think that is possible, but by definition that really isn't "interbreeding" because no
actual breeding (sex) is involved. |
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18 Sep 2008 20:13
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