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Pretty much all organisms can produce offspring.

If you're asking if there are species other than donkeys and horses that are cross-fertile, the answer is still yes. Most felids, for example, are cross-fertile with other species within the same genus, as long as the size difference isn't too great. Lions and tigers, for example, can certainly mate and produce offspring, and domestic cats can (and often do) mate with the smaller varieties of wild cats.

For an example from the plant world, nearly all citrus fruits are hybrids. The key lime, the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarin orange are pure species, but lemons, most limes, most Oranges, and grapefruits (for example) are all hybrids.

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Organisms must be of the same species in order to breed and produce offspring?

That's correct. In order to produce offspring, organisms generally need to be of the same species since they share similar genetic material and can produce fertile offspring. Breeding between different species often leads to sterile offspring, like mules from the crossing of a horse and a donkey.


What must true for two organisms to be considered the same species?

they can produce fertile offspring


How do you know that greyhound and poodle belong to the same species?

A species is defined as a group of similar organisms which can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Both a Poodle and a Greyhound are therefore of the same species, Canis Lupus Familiaris, as they are genetically very similar and can produce puppies which can themselves breed. An example of two species which appear very similar but cannot produce fertile offspring are the donkey and the horse. A donkey can mate with a horse and produce a foal (which is known as a mule), but this foal will be infertile and unable to produce its own offspring. Therefore, we know that a donkey and a horse are not of the same species, and that a Poodle and a Greyhound are.


What is donkey semen?

Donkey semen is the excretions from a male donkey that provides the necessary genetic information to combine with the female donkey's egg to produce offspring. The male donkey semen helps determine things like the color of the coat, breed, and other physical features of the offspring.


What can a donkey do that a mule can not do?

A donkey can have offspring that is a mule, a mule cannot have offspring that is a donkey.


Can you breed brother donkey to sister donkey?

Yes they only breed with their breed.The above is only partly true. A donkey is a breed, or species (Equuis asines), It, therefore, can breed true - that is, a male and a female donkey will produce another donkey.However, a donkey can interbreed with a horse as follows:A female horse (mare), and a male donkey will produce a mule.A male horse (stallion), and a female donkey will produce a hinny.


What is Porduced when individuals of different species interbreed and produce offspring?

If the two species are even able to produce offspring, then the offspring would be a hybrid. For example, a donkey and a horse breed to make a mule. Due to the definition of "species," the offspring would either be infertile, inviable or both.


Will a donkey mate with a cow?

A donkey and a cow are two different species. They cannot produce offspring. If a donkey were to persue a cow, it is a form of dominance behavior. He cannot sire calves or foals from the cow.


What two species can produce an offspring but the offspring isn't fertile?

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes.Of the two hybrids between these two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny (the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey).All male mules and most female mules are infertile.


Which must be true for two organisms to be considered the same species?

They must be of the same. ---- # Kingdom # Phylum# Class # Order # Family # Genus and obviously, Species. ---- They have to be in all of the same categories listed, or else they are not of the same species.


What is the offspring of a female donkey and a male horse called?

That is a mule.


If a donky and a hores have babies what is the baby called?

The offspring of a donkey and a horse is known as a mule. Becaus ethey are hybrids, they usually can't re-produce. This does occasionally happen, however. I know that it has happened a few times in the Grand Canyon!