Quote:
Originally posted by WhirlwindTNX
I wish those pictures were modified, but they aren't. A couple months back Animal Planet did a special on people who take Lions and Tigers in after they are discarded by their owners. This one family took in a Tigon. They did an update and it died not too long after the special was made.
They also had other animals like a Horse/Donkey....a Honkey I'm guessing..... ........maybe a Dorse....
|
A mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey...
I dunno...
Naturally, in the wild, lions and tigers don't really mix like that...
Now, I can do an embryonic transplantation on a lion embryo into a tiger womb or vice versa... But, if it will take... Your guess is a good as mine.
The
Homo troglodytes, e.g. chimps, completely differ from
Homo sapiens sapiens, e.g. humans. Humans and Chimps do not cross. The genes and chromosomes are a bit off. Chimps share 98% of the genes in the human genome. We have 23 pairs of chromosomes, chimps have 21 pairs... There is something inherent in the chimps DNA that does not recombine at all with the human DNA in homologous recombination during the second stage of meiosis. Something in the microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA recombination that is off.
Moreover, that is why there were Neanderthals and the Cro Magnon man. Their DNA is not interspersed with Modern Human Being DNA. That became extremely apparent in that last few Nature magazine articles. And the DNA-chips did not show any sequences from
Homo erectus in the
Homo sapiens sapiens genome or transcriptomes--or proteomes for that matter...
That is what 1000s of years of evolutionary difference will do... Besides, mutation rates are slow in evolutionary time.
I am not talking about "evolution" in Biblical terms. I am talking about scientific facts that can be found doing a "PubMed" search at the National Institutes of Health Website.
However, eventually, with biotechnology, I could probably generate some transgenic cross breedings that could take place with a haplotype map development and Human Genome Project completion... But, that might take 10 years to develop and we scientists have waaayyyy tooo much illnesses to cure to do some isht like that.
Threaded Mode