What is a half sheep half goat called?

Question

for a biology crossword its for

Answer 1

A geep.

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Answer 2

The geep:

(In the 1980s, Scottish scientists used cloning techniques to create a half sheep, half goat, a geep. )

The cross between a sheep and a goat happened because an eight-celled sheep embryo was joined with three eight-celled goat embryos. In the first stage of the embryo’s development, every cell can still grow into each specific cell which is necessary in the body (brain cells, nerve cells, bone cells, etc.). As a result of this joining, those parts of the ‘geep’ which come from the sheep embryo end up as sheep and those parts which come from the goat cells end as goat. The result is half-sheep, half-goat, but it must be added that it is a shaky animal. Furthermore it is also possible that sheep and goats can fertilize each other, but most of the time the embryo dies during development. In some rare cases though viable offspring is produced. And that is the only reason why a viable animal is the result of such a geep cross. Sheep and goats belong to the same original type of animal. This would not work between a frog and an ELEPHANT.

Such animals, which have four parents, are called chimeras. If the sheep-goat chimera would be able to have offspring, sheep and/or goats would come out. It just depends on which cells formed the sex organs. The offspring would never be a geep. That means that this human experimentation has nothing at all to do with evolution, which requires changes in the offspring to be able to be passed on.

Answer 3

critter is a geep - it is a chimeric cross or chimera (maybe)
They did one at Oxford many years back

Answer 4

A "Geep" you can see a picture of this and more hybrids @

http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-mammals.html

Answer 5

A figmant of someone's imagination.

Answer 6

a geep

Answer 7

menatar

Answer 8

sheat or goep :)