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a mule (the off-spring of a burro and a horse) is born sterile

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What is the term for 'specie'?

'species' is an organism that can produce fertile offspring through reproduction (with the same species) Do not confuse mule as a species because it can produce fertile offsping when bred with a horse, a mule would ahve to produce fertile offspring when mating with another mule inorder to be classed as a species.


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.


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.


What do you get when you breed a mammoth mule to a horse?

Nothing. Majority of mules are sterile thus unable to produce offspring.


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

they can produce fertile offspring


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.


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

That is a mule.


What is the offspring of a burro and a horse?

mule


Does a horse and a mule make a donkey?

yes, the offspring would be a mule, hybrid.


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!


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.


Do male donkey and female donkey mates?

Yes, a male donkey (jack) and a female donkey (jenny) can mate. When they do, they produce offspring called a foal, which is a purebred donkey. This is different from the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, which is a mule, or a female donkey and a male horse, which is a hinny. Mules and hinnies are sterile, meaning they cannot reproduce, but donkeys themselves are fertile and their offspring can go on to reproduce as well. This ability to mate and produce fertile offspring is what defines them as the same species.