Does In Vitro Fertilization hurt?

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  • I was wondering if an embroyo could be in vitro fertilized and implanted into a different species. For example could a dog have kittens via in vitro fertilization?

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    No, the animals would have to be very closely related species. For example, a sheep and a goat, a dog and a wolf, and sure, probably a horse and a zebra. In fact, this has been done in several cases to revive a seriously endangered species. While I forget what type of animal it was, there was only a single one left on earth, so they cloned it using somatic cell nuclear transfer and implanted the "fertilized" zygote into a member of a closely related species. That species then gave birth to the cloned individual of the endangered species.

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Don't think it would make it, because if so we would already see them - scientists do alot of experimenting and I am sure that was tried a long time ago. DNA that is different and cells that are different are considered a foreign body and there for the antibodies would attack the cells and it would be miscarried.

Va_Beach_Kitty

I believe that if the species are very similar, it could be possible, but otherwise no.

wildstar_2

http://www.ask.com/web?q=can+an+embryo+be+in+vitro+fertilized+and+implanted+into+a+different+species%3F&qsrc=1&o=0 doubtful....the system of the maternal animal would probably reject it since the dna's would be so different.

Kiss my Putt!

No, I don't think so. There would likely be an immediate immune response and the embrionic cells would be destroyed like any other invader. In some rare instances "species" that are closely enough related to interbreed might be able to carry eachothers offspring but I've never heard of it being done. Horses and Donkeys for instance may be closely enough related to do this.

Armus

Yes,maybe.Humans are improving science day by day.by the improving of science what you asked would happen.Maybe by the next generation it could happen.what we have'nt really thought also could happen.The technique cloning devoloped dolly.Now testtube babies.next will be the one you have thought of.

Willy

No, the difference in species would cause a immune response. It is possable to mate a horse and a zebra together and get offspring, although the offspring will be infertile, so i guess that if you were to use in vitro fertilization with these two species it would carry to term.

dunnerzplant

I have heard that absolutely no, it will not work. The bigger question is, why on earth would anyone want to do that?

oceansnsunsets

Its called Genetic Engineering. It probably has been done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species Read de definition of species: The biological meaning of species is thus quite apparent: "The segregation of the total genetic variability of nature into discrete packages, so called species, which are separated from each other by reproductive barriers, prevents the production of too great a number of disharmonious incompatible gene combinations. This is the basic biological meaning of species and this is the reason why there are discontinuities between sympatric species. We do know that genotypes are extremely complex epigenetic systems. There are severe limits to the amount of genetic variability that can be accommodated in a single gene pool without producing too many incompatible gene combinations" (Mayr 1969, 316). The validity of this argument is substantiated by the fact that hybrids between species, particularly in animals, are almost always of inferior viability and more extreme hybrids are usually even sterile. "Almost always" means that there are species interpreted to be the result of hybridization, particularly among plants, but except for the special case of allopolyploidy, such cases are rare. Reproduction of two different species:http://home.att.net/~jamspsu84/ttocras.html

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