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From: sa209@utb.shv.hb.se (Claes Andersson)
Subject: Re: Need info on genetic engineering of animals
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In article <19NOV94.07291695@abyss.usask.ca> harder@abyss.usask.ca writes:

>    I would like to know the effects that genetic engineering will have on animals. Specifically I am interested in the effects of cross-breeding animals of
>different families (i.e. cat + dog = ?) and the results of any such viable
>experiments.
>  Any resource material anyone can recomend would be appreciated.


>                                             -Thanks in advance -Matt Z.

 Cross-breeding of different families are generally not possible at all. If 
one would make an attempt to get a chimp-human bastard it wouldn't succeed 
because the human 2'nd autosome is split in automsome 2 and 3 in the chimp's 
genome. There aren't even pairs of chromosomes. If it succeeds, like 
crossing a horse and a donkey, the offspring will be sterile. Closely 
related species like lions and tigers can be crossed but I think the 
offspring of such crossings are sterile too. One defininition of what a 
species is that reproduction of fertile offspring is impossible.
   

Claes Andersson. University of Bors. Sweden
