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No, one of the deciding factor when it comes to categorizing animals into different species is whether or not they can produce offspring. Different kinds of dogs can "mix" even if they are different breeds because they are still part of the same species. While all turtles are part of the same "Order", in biological terminology, if the turtles are classified as different species, they will not produce viable offspring.

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When two species become so different that they can no longer breed it is called what?

On my worksheet for biology the possible answers for that exact question areinfertilityextinctionisolationselection.hope that narrows it down_____________________________The answer is: isolation.


What is crossbreeding?

To produce a hybrid animal by breeding two animals of different species. For example, crossbreeding a male donkey with a female horse will produce a mule. To hybridize. Hybridization


What two things can happen to a population of species if they do not adapt?

I think the two things for population of species if they do not adapt. The answer I think is sea turtles,and salmon.


If two populations have been reproductively isolated and can no longer breed and produce fertile offspring the process of what has occurred?

If two populations of the same species no longer interbreed then their differences will start to become more pronounced and eventually they will become so different that they will be classified as two different sub-species.


What is the called when two organisms can no longer successfully breed?

If you have a species from which a new species is produces, how is it that that new species is produces such that it cannot breed with the parent species? We can say that a new species arises and that interbreeding is possible, but eventually you merge species, or the species weren't all that distinct to begin with. But how can a new species arise where interbreeding is impossible? if one member were to change so drastically into a new species such that he couldn't breed, then another would have to change in just the same way to allow for mating. geographical separation doesn't explain anything because there has to be a moment when changes, which are reflected in an individual not in a species as a whole, has to occur in the separated population. How can the geographically separate populace drift together such that they are no longer able to breed and yet able to breed with one another? There must be a distinct moment in time when this happens because changes occur in new members.