for real scientists......?

Question

is it possible to cross breed different animals like a lion and a horse or different animal with similar traits????

i mean like if they can artifictially inciminate a female animal with a different animal with basic traits

Answer 1

it depends how close the two species are. Species with recent common ancestors can mate with some success. Take for example a horse and donkey and a tiger and lion (yes, ligers do exist but very rarely...very strange looking also.) However, these offspring usually die in certain steps of the growing stage.

1. The egg and sperm normally would not join together but depending on the genetic make up, the egg might take up the sperm.

2. Even as a developing egg, the DNA must be able to join together, lacking or extra chromosomes can kill the developing egg.

3. Even with the right number of chromosomes, the fetus can develop abnormally without the right genes from what would have been chromosomes from the same species. Thus, the fetus could die inside the womb.

4. Passing these pre-birth stages, the offspring is usually sterile like Asses. They are genetically incapable with mating with horse or donkey and even when mating with another ***, no offspring would be produced due to the pre-birth reasons again.

5. In very very rare cases, the offspring of crossbreeds can mate with each other but their offspring are almost 100% sterile.

As mentioned before, the species have to have a real recent common ancestor. As far as crossing lions and a horse, thats probably not going to work. Actually, not possible because lions have 20 pairs of chromosomes while horses have 16 pairs of chromosomes.

Answer 2

That's what most animals are! In the beginning of time there were relatively few animal species on the planet. Therefore the chances of any particular animal mating with it's own kind were greatly reduced. Animals then mated with what would be considered the next best thing, hence the creation of another species. That is why we have so many different types of the same species such as birds, dogs, cats etc. Certain chromosomal strings however are highly incompatible and therefore the DNA/RNA formation would not be suitable to sustain life which would render the offspring of incompatible mates lifeless. Recent mating of cattle and buffalo in the northeast have produced what is now know as beefalo. The Mule is the offspring of the Male Donkey and the Female Horse and the list goes on.

Answer 3

You can cross breed animals that are closely related such as lions and tigers or horses and donkeys but not lions and horses. The genes are too different to match up and make a viable offspring and I can imagine the female horse would object to the attentions of a lion.

Answer 4

Yes,but the end result may have many complications due to the differences in genetic make up...tom science

Answer 5

No way, they must be very close relations like horse/donkey or lion/tiger.

Answer 6

http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/crossesa.htm

yea i seen it on dicovery channel it was a lion and a tiger and together i think they made a tigon

Answer 7

only within the same species.

Answer 8

yea...very possible

c urself http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/crossesa.htm