do the number of chromosomes have something to do with hybrid animals?
i’m blonde and i don’t really understand big words
i have to research the number of chromosomes and in interbreeding species, are the animals that breed similar in number?
can you put in small words that a blonde would understand?
thank you!
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no, if they can be hybridized (mixed together) both animals (like donkey and horse) have to have the same number of chromosomes or else there wont be a pregnancy because it would be imposible to mix
no cuz they are from the same spiecy
Interbreeding species do NOT have to have the same chromosome number, but they need to be similar, especially in their arrangement of genes. This is more important for animals than for plants, which interbreed much more easily.
Horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62 , but they can produce a mule because their chromosomes are pretty homologous. A horse and a guinea pig both have 64 chromosomes, but cannot interbreed because the genes are arranged differently; a chicken and a dog both have 78…