If yes, which species' egg can fertilize a human sperm? Can there be a successful gestation period and finally could an offspring be born?
2006-12-30 13:39:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Well, I'm %99.9 sure too that it is impossible; yet I wanted to know how creative some of you can get while answering this question. The better insight and the more knowledge I get out of an answer the more likley it will be to get chosen as the Best Answer (if that means anything to anyone out there).
2006-12-30 14:08:11 · update #1
Let me see.
I could swap the chromosomes of a human sperm tp a chimp's sperm. I would then allow the chimp's sperm to float into the body of a female chimp. Then i'm sure it will not reject the fertilization. Then after about 3 weeks, before the foetus starts feeling uncomfortable in the chimp-womb, i would operate and take it out and grow it in another nutrition rich vessel. There will probably be a gestation period in between that of the chimp and human. Then the new chiphuman will be born.
That's it
2006-12-30 16:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by guyfromthesky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not thinking about this at all but I came across a very odd video on youtube, of a dead pig fetus that seriously resembled a human fetus. It just made me wonder, if a sick pervert could have been nasty enough to defile a poor pig and the dead fetus was the result? I understand that it wouldn't make it to the end stages of development but would it even be possible for the egg to be fertilized is what i wondered.
2013-12-05 09:20:51 · answer #2 · answered by Presilla 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are some who believe if you split the human sperm or animal sperm and try impregnation, it might work if conditions are probably lined up like cloning. Yet right now that's only in science fiction and no where near reality. Different chromosomes and protein make up. It's like putting a round peg in a square hole of equal size.
2006-12-30 13:50:11 · answer #3 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is no. Not by any natural means. But they have attempted it. They fertilized a cow egg with human sperm through dna reassignment. We aren't sure if it would live to be birthed though because it was ordered the baby be aborted only days after it was successfully implanted. Kinda makes you wonder who cow-baby's sidekick would have been though huh?
2006-12-30 13:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by delacroix192 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, there is still the difference in the number of homologous chromosomes. They can't match up. Even if it does happen to work the offspring would be infertile. Humans have 46 chromosomes, chimps have 48.
2006-12-30 13:42:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It DOESN'T work.
There is no cross species reproduction.
Yet.
Let man mess with it some more.
Like politics, who knows what the future will bring!
2016-11-15 17:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by M. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop reading tabloids.
No, human's cannot have offspring with animals.
Just because a tabloid said that a woman gave birth to a 3 headed cow, does not mean it is true.
2006-12-30 13:41:24 · answer #7 · answered by May 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The sperm would be recognised as foreign and destroyed by the body's immune system.
Also, if artificially fertilised, chromosomes don't match up.
2006-12-30 14:10:08 · answer #8 · answered by Labsci 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Youve just described how George Bush came into being!
2006-12-30 13:41:49 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. CoCo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont think so...different species..if it does, the offspring will not survive...i think one of the few different species that produce a surviving offspring are the horse and donkey = mule. but the mule is sterile...
2006-12-30 15:22:53 · answer #10 · answered by vincent m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋