Considering how close we are to chimpanzees genetically, it seems highly possible to crossbreed human and chimp. However, I have no knowledge about such a case, or even the mention of it?
Does anyone know? Please, cite your sources, don't just "of course look at (insert celebrity name here) LOL!!!!!!!1" me.
2007-01-06 23:08:24 · 12 answers · asked by otisabi 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
For all those who care to answer wheter chimps and humans may have sexual intercourse is out of question. Obviously they can, provided that the ends fit each other. I was referring to the sexual act which begets offsprings, not your usual friday night jungle fever.
The chromosome difference doesn't seem to regulate crossbreeding completely, and articial insemination might overcome the biological factors.
What I am really asking is: did anyone tried to prove that it can or it can not?
If you find curiosity of this sort perverted, I don't mind. When it comes to being human, nothing beats indifference and ignorance in the ranks of perversion.
2007-01-07 04:59:45 · update #1
Someone else mentioned the chromosome pairing issue but also the environment of the vagina of the female participant would likely be lethal to the sperm of the male.
With gene splicing it might be possible to exchange sections of chromosomal DNA and create a type of hybrid.
If it could happen naturally it would have happened (probably many time) by now.
My edit to clarify: also the pairing of the DNA along the maternal and paternal chromosomes would not work. The genes are in different locations. Imagine taking a King James bible and some other version and ripping each in half. Each contains mostly the same information but if you try to mach the pages up they will not make sense together. If this were the DNA directing the differentiation of an embryo it would simply be non-functional. Although humans and chimps have very similar DNA much of the sequence has been shuffled over the last few million years of separation due to crossovers, insertion mutations, etc.
2007-01-07 02:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by bill h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Different chromosome numbers usually, but not
always, prevent production of viable offspring. It
might perhaps be possible to produce a human-
chimp hybrid,but the ethical questions this would
raise seem to be the main reason why it has not
been done.
One researcher has suggested, despite the more
commonly accepted idea, that orangutans may be
more closely related to humans than chimps are,
and he has presented a considerable amount of
evidence in support of this idea. It may be of
some significance that I have heard one or two reports of orangutans raping human females. It's
hard to tell, of course, whether the reports are
true or not.
2007-01-08 03:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the last time: NO!!
Humans and Chimps don't have the same number of chromosomes. Thus it is impossible for them to interbreed.
How many times will this question come up?
2007-01-10 22:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Zaius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People can and probably have had sex with chimpanzees. No, that isn't how AIDS happened.
No we cant hybridize, we have a different number of chromosomes and some of the key gene sequences that control development are too different to combine to make a viable organism.
2007-01-07 05:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimps have 24 pairs of chromosomes (like others monkeys) while humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. So it's impossible to breed these two species.
2007-01-06 23:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph Binette 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are actually two questions here:
1. CAN they mate?
answer, yes, if the human is crazy enough and the chip is docile enough!
2. can they produce offspring?
answer:
"Probably not. Ethical considerations preclude definitive research on the subject, but it's safe to say that human DNA has become so different from that of other animals that interbreeding would likely be impossible."
http://www.slate.com/id/2153600/
(and click on all of their links for more info)
2007-01-06 23:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by mle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many documented cases of humans having intercourse with other primates. That is how AIDS got started in Uganda, Africa. But there has been no off spring as a result of these pairings. That is no off spring that has survived.
2007-01-06 23:15:40 · answer #7 · answered by sonny_too_much 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pervert.
2007-01-07 04:52:41 · answer #8 · answered by Nevermind 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what I've heard, the HIV epidemic was caused by a human raping a chimpanzee...
2007-01-06 23:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, We are Humans and They r animals.
Doing Sex with them is Unnatural.
so, chimpanzees and Human Should not Mate.
2007-01-06 23:16:40 · answer #10 · answered by AVANISH JI 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋