Can/will scientist create new living species.?

Question

Not cloning but entirely a new species

Answer 1

They've already done it.

First, you are correct that cloning does not produce a new species. And I should also gently remind Buddha Boy that a hybrid is NOT a new species ... UNLESS it can survive and produce non-sterile offspring AND it cannot reproduce with other descendants of the same ancestor species. None of the hybrids you cite are examples of this. Speciation through hybridization is almost unheard of among mammals, birds, or reptiles, although it does occur in insects and (quite commonly) in plants.

Second, it's important to define what "new species" means. The link I give at the end gives an analysis in *excruciating* detail. But in summary, if you take some ancestor species A, and separate it into two sub-populations A1 and A2 and keep them completely isolated for *many* generations, then if some later descendants of A1 and A2 cannot interbreed, then they are two species. I.e. if A1-A2 hybrids are nonviable or sterile, then they are now different species. (Just as we know that donkeys and horses are different species because donkey-horse hybrids (mules) are sterile.)

The experiments to do this are very easy to set up ... but they take literally years to do. This is because it takes *hundreds* of generations before two descendant populations are unable to breed with each other.

However, scientists have done it. Many times. Using plants, or some fast-reproducing insect species like fruit-flies (Drosophila) or worms. The result is not some "monster" species, but just two subspecies of the same species that have lost the ability to interbreed and produce viable (and non-sterile) offspring.

For example, two strains of fruit flies lost the ability to interbreed and produce fertile offspring in the lab over a 4-year span ... i.e. they became two new species. (Easily repeated experiment.)

Answer 2

When you say new species, it should not have specific characteristic of any other species that is currently living in this world.That , according to me cannot be done.As far as man knows, he can only create life which is already in the database.He does not have the rights or capability to create one whole new form of life.

Anything he creates should be and will be based on some ancestors only.So there is no way that man can create a new species.Even the cloning that he has done is imperfect. Its not even close to God's creation of TWINS.

Answer 3

From scratch. Not yet. But people are trying, one way to do this is to find the minimum amount of genetic information necessary for one to get a self-replicating single cell organism (bacteria or whatever) that fulfills all the definitions we have for a true living organism, which is still up for debate. Craig Venter is trying this, and since we know how to synthesize big pieces of DNA and proteins or take them from other organisms and put them into bacteria he might end up creating almost from scratch a new species. But yeah I think just by some genetic engineering and selective breeding we have created many new species.

Answer 4

it is really hard 2 create new species by carrying out a manmade evolution. wat i mean is a really special experiment carried out by scientist from all over the world. according to evolution teory, a species will change its form from time 2 time so they can adapt themselves to environment better. first scientist cultivate a group of a kind of fly which complete their life circle in a week. that means they r born, grow, reproduce n die in just 1 week, so the population will b a new generation from week to week. dis exp is carrried out in 1900 something, more than 100 years n about 5000 week hv passed, dat mean 5000 generation of fly hv been cultured. if u compared 2 human which hv a average age of 80 years age, 384000 years hv been passed. however, no new species formed but only mutation happened. fly without wing or crippled or any abnormal characteristics hv been vestigated by scientist, but there is 1 very important fact dat they r still from the same species. however, new species cab b created by using speciation method, dats culture 1 same species by sepaerate them into really different habitat. by time passes, some modification will happen 2 the species. however 2 seperated species will develope different adaptation bacause of the different environmebt they stay. when time pass by, the two group of species will develop into two different species due to the adaptation to the environment. teh other way is 2 mix two kind of dna from different species, however, dis is the hardest way cos each species hv their own number of chromosom, different number of chromosom will not able 2 pair up usually when ferterlisation id tried 2 b carried out. eventhough the species can b really created, it will b a infertile spaceis dat mean they cant reproduce. for example is the mule which is a mix from horse n donkey. so scientist can actually create new species if they wan. however, they will not usually do dat cos create new species is unless, there r still many new species in our natural environment 2 b discover.

Answer 5

tons of this stuff has occur.

hybrids are a coomon example

Mule, a cross of female horse and a male donkey.
Hinny, a cross between a female donkey and a male horse.
A "Zeedonk", a zebra/donkey hybridZebroids
Zeedonk or zonkey, a zebra/donkey cross.
Zorse, a zebra/horse cross
Zony/zetland, a zebra/pony cross ("zony" is a generic term; "zetland" is specifically a hybrid of the Shetland pony breed with a zebra)
Dzo, zo or yakow: a cross between a domestic cow/bull and a yak. See also Bovid hybrids.
Beefalo/cattalo, a cross of an American Bison and a domestic cow. This is a fertile breed; this along with genetic evidence has caused them to be recently reclassified into the same genus, Bos. See also Bovid hybrids.
Zubron, a hybrid between Wisent (European Bison) and domestic cow.
Sheep-goat hybrids, such as the The Toast of Botswana.
Ursinae hybrids, such as the Grizzly-polar bear hybrid, occur between black bears, brown bears, Kodiak and polar bears.
Savannah cats are the hybrid cross between an African serval cat and a Domestic cat
Fertile Canid hybrids occur between coyotes, wolves, dingos, jackals and domestic dogs. Dogs and wolves may be considered the same species, making wolfdogs a non-hybrid.
Hybrids between Black & White Rhinos have been recognized.
Hybrids between spotted owls and barred owls
Ligers and Tigons (crosses between a Lion and a Tiger) and other Panthera hybrids such as the Lijagulep. Various other wild cat crosses are known involving the Lynx, Bobcat, Leopard, Serval, etc.
Bengal cat, a cross between the Asian Leopard cat and the domestic cat, one of many hybrids between the domestic cat and wild cat species. The domestic cat, African wild cat and European wildcat may be considered variant populations of the same species (Felis silvestris), making such crosses non-hybrids.
Cama, a cross between a Camel and a Llama, also an intergeneric hybrid.
Wolphin, a fertile but very rare cross between a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin.
A fertile cross between an albino King Snake and an albino Corn Snake.
At Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom, a cross between African elephant (male) and Indian elephant (female). The male calf was named Motty. It died of gut infection after twelve days.
Cagebird breeders sometimes breed hybrids between species of finch, such as Goldfinch x Canary. These birds are known as Mules.
Gamebird hybrids, hybrids between gamebirds and domestic fowl, including Chickens, Guineafowl and Peafowl, interfamilial hybrids.
Numerous Macaw hybrids are also known.
Red Kite x Black Kite: 5 bred unintentionally at a falconry center in England. (It is reported that the black kite (the male) refused female black kites but mated with two female red kites.)

Answer 6

I hope not. That's God's job.

Answer 7

well if you think about it that sounds REALLY REALLY BAD! because think of what they could do