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Will hybirds reproduce

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Hybrids cannot reproduce due to chromosome numbers. An example can include a horse and a donkey. When each animal provides a gamete with a haploid number to make a mule, the mule ends up 63 chromosomes. That is an odd number. When the mule has to make its own gamete, the 32 chromosomes cannot pair with 31 donkey chromosomes. Thus, meiosis fails and gametes cannot be reproduced.

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14y ago

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