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Why don't scientist consider the mule to be a separate species since it is the offspring of a horse and donkey?
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Because horse and donkey come from the genus, Equus. And because male mule are sterile and the female rarely if ever create a successful embryo about one in every ten years worldwide. For another reason in order to be a new species, mules would have to have two mule parents. As it is male mules(or johns) can not be come dads and female mules(mollies) rarely(essentially never) become mothers. This
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Do organisms have to be the the same species in order to breed and produce offspring?
No, organisms of different species can breed and produce offspring. Donkeys and horses can breed and produce mules but mules cannot produce offspring.
Why are horses and donkeys considered different species even they can produce offspring?
Horses and donkeys can reproduce offspring because there they are so closely related they are scientifically classified in the same kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus. Their offspring will often be infertile though.
Horses and donkeys are not of the same species when defined by reproductive isolation because why?
Offspring of a horse and donkey are unable to reproduce
Should a horse and a donkey be considered the same species?
No. A horse has 32 pairs of chromosomes, a donkey only 31 pairs. If the two are crossed they produce male offspring that are completely sterile, demonstrating that they must be separate species. The same applies to crossing a domestic cow with a buffalo or bison bull. The male calves are sterile, although the females can show some level of fertility.
What is the offspring of a female horse and male donkey?
A hinnyIs a Mule
When two closely related but separate species are crossed their offspring are usually?
The offspring are usually sterile.
Who decides if a populationhas become a new species?
once they can no longer breed and produce a fertile offspring with the other group they become a separate species
When members of two populations cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring what is it?
They are both considered separate species at the point they can no longer interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
When members of a Species become separated by geography and lose the ability to interbreed how would scientist classify them?
They would become 2 separate species.
Do new specie appear on earth because two individuals from separate mate and their offspring is a new and different species?
No. Generally, one species gives rise to two new species by geographic and reproductive isolation. Separate species mating at best gives nonviable hybrids.
Why can't swans and geese mate?
They are different species. If they could mate to produce fertile offspring, they wouldn't have separate names.
Can a human baby be born from a buffalo?
All species are separate. A buffalo can only produce a buffalo offspring. As well, inter-species sexual intercourse would be impossible.
How could you distinguish between a species in which there is a lot of variation and two separate species?
Sometimes it is very hard to distinguish between a species where there is a lot of variation between that of a variation that is actually two separate species. Many times scientist disagree on how to tell these two things apart.
If a horse and a rihno have an offspringwould it be a unicorn?
No, the two species are in no way compatible. No offspring would result. The unicorn is a creature of quite a separate derivation.
Is jersey cow hybrid with pig?
Not even close, no. Pigs and cows are two separate species, they cannot interbreed with each other to produce offspring.
What is a reproductive strategy?
The way a species produces offspring
Are Neanderthals humans?
There is some controversy on this; some scientist believe that Neanderthals were a sub-species of humans, and some believe that they were a separate species and not humans at all.
