2006-07-19 06:15:54 · 20 answers · asked by Ha Ha Charade You Are................... 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
no it cannot because of their DNA. when a sperm and an egg meet they must have the exact # of chromosomes in order to create something new. Humans have 23 pairs each where as other animals would have a different number.
2006-07-19 06:26:49 · answer #1 · answered by mandy_2289 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Maybe. A human sperm might have the possibility to impregnate an animal such as a chimpanzee or other closely related species.
Mules, for example, are a cross between a horse and a donkey. However, mules are not considered another species because they cannot reproduce.
Because there have been no recorded experiments crossing human sperm to all species, we don't know the answer to your question!
2006-07-19 11:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is if it can "impregnate". The answer is no because the sperm only have specific enzymes for penetrating the human egg, and I think eggs of different sp. have different composition. So human sperm will not be able to "impregnate" an animal egg coz it can't penetrate the animal egg in the first place because it lacks certain enzymes to do so. Unless genetic engeenering interferes.
2006-07-19 06:37:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, becos different species has diff kind of enzymes in the sperms and these enzymes are like code to enter ovum so when a sperm from different species applied to a other species...thn it will reject by ovum to enter to the ovum....so human sperm cant impregnate an animal...k
2006-07-19 23:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by balu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because the ovum secretes certain anti-fertility factors that are species-specific. These chemotactic factors are recognized by the sperms from an animal of only that species and fertilization of the ovum occurs.
2006-07-19 06:34:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the human animal!
2006-07-19 06:17:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kristine C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shockingly adequate, experiments and checks have been carried out in this challenge. back interior the early twentieth century, there replace right into a Russian study scientist named Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov who have been given a grant from his government for a small, suitable-secret test in producing ape/human hybrids. the government was hoping that those hybrids could make somewhat dazzling squaddies. So a bunch of apes have been artificially inseminated with human sperm, yet none took. there replace into additionally an surprisingly tall, easy, probably clever chimpanzee named Oliver who some human beings claimed replace into genuinely the offspring of a human/chimpanzee coupling. yet that too proved to be fake--genetic checks confirmed needless to say that he replace into organic chimpanzee. So it style of feels that we are too genetically distinctive, even from our closest residing family participants, to reproduce with them. And if we won't be able to reproduce with super apes then we genuinely won't be able to reproduce with the different species. There could be a pair of motives for this; it could desire to be that our cellular floor proteins are so distinctive that a human sperm won't even comprehend and thereby fertilize the egg cellular of yet another species, or it could desire to be that our genes are so distinctive that a fertilized egg could finally end up with the incorrect "gene stability" and die. possibly the two. the two way, it does not artwork with the aid of organic techniques. technological know-how has investigated some particularly loopy issues with the aid of the years. there is no longer various study on crossbreeding people and animals particularly, yet there's a honest quantity of study obtainable on crossbreeding different comparable species, and we are able to make inferences from those different species on the subject be counted human beings. links to articles on Ivanov and Oliver.
2016-11-02 08:35:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Because if It could. I swear it would be like the Island of Doctor Mareau for real. There are some sick people out there that would do it with an animal.
2006-07-19 06:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by The_Answer_Man™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be unethical to do so...but the possibility exists that a chimp and a human could produce a zygote. It may not come to term and if it did, it would most likely be infertile, as are most animals of different species who can produce offspring.
2006-07-19 06:21:43 · answer #9 · answered by Tessie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not possible, because the human species has a different number of chromosomes than any other species on the planet.
2006-07-19 07:04:40 · answer #10 · answered by T.L. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋