DNA, Chromosomes and Chimera talk

[AntTheDestroyer]

Except it can and has been proven. When polyploidy occurs in a diploid animal, that animal is infertile. Hybrid snakes have been able to reproduce. Thus it can not be polyploidy.

If snakes have pairs of chromosomes, and each parent gives one chromosome, the offspring has one set inherited from each parent. This means that it has one pair of each chromosome. Nowhere could it become polyploid. The number of chromosomes a parent has certainly does affect how the offspring is formed.


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Saying that polyploids in diploid leads to infertility is just plain false. About 50 percent of women with down syndrom are fertile. Even in a case of polyploidy of sex chromosomes, as is the case with Klinefelters syndrome a small percent are fertile for the majority of their life.

You are confusing the process of diploid sexual reproduction in the same species versus that between seperate species where the DNA is not necessarily compatible. You need to look into the difference between polyploid speciation and homoploid speciation. Then please get back to me.

I think I have taken this thread about as far off topic as I can, and it is beginning to seem disrespectful to the OP so I would encourage anyone who would like to continue this line of conversation to pm me.