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Can Two Different Animals Reproduce and Coat Each Other?

Brighton paho, up for our next question. Why is it not possible for two different species to reproduce and coate the new species hybrite? The answer is that, under certain circumstances, it is possible. Closely related species can still interbreed. And there are species of butterfly that do this. But what unites all of those is they've got to be really closely related. Animals that are more desperately related, or not even related at all, are not inter fertile. They can't cross breed with each other because the structure of the chromosomes in those animals is different. Imagine if plants and people could hybridizeany you'd end up with some very weird stuff

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