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09-07-2008, 07:15 PM
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Interbreeding question
A friend was joking around and said I should breed 'boa-condas'. I tried to explain to him why that wouldn't work... And I couldn't. I don't know the genetic ins and outs well enough to say anything beyond 'they're not the same species'. Anyone want to help me out and make me sound smarter next time I try to explain something like that?
I did point out how the anaconda would probably eat the red tail, rather than breed with it. 
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09-08-2008, 01:09 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
i dont think theres any other explanation other than they are completely different species.
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09-08-2008, 01:46 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
Explain it as the same reason you can't make Chicken-sparrows or Turk-Emus. Yeah, they're all birds, but they won't mix. It's like that old Loverboy song, "Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice."
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09-08-2008, 01:48 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
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It's like that old Loverboy song, "Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice."
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I never heard that one, Rev. Hum a few bars. 
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09-08-2008, 04:37 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
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Explain it as the same reason you can't make Chicken-sparrows or Turk-Emus. Yeah, they're all birds, but they won't mix. It's like that old Loverboy song, "Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice."
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LOL!! I wish I would have been sober enough to think of that...
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09-10-2008, 04:53 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
To play Devil's Advocate... A few years ago no one even dreamed a ball and a (oh let's see....) burm, carpet, woma, or blood python could hybridize. Now it's been proven possible. No one has really screwed around with boas yet, so who knows? IMO it's totally plausible, albeit highly unlikely. |
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09-10-2008, 04:56 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
stem cell is all i gotta say...
if you got the money...
it can probably happen
not that its right or anything
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09-11-2008, 01:03 AM
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Re: Interbreeding question
last i checked boas and condas are in the same family i dont see why it couldent be done not saying it schould be but im sure its possable
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09-11-2008, 01:09 AM
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