week 5 undergoing

when mergers go wrong

this class was pretty interesting!its a continuation of the one based on juxtaposition. We were required to choose two completely different kinds of animals and turn them into one,to see how their offspring would look like in case of mating. My choice was of a bird and a fish.it is a good example to show how mergers go wrong;

1.the two animals do not stay in the same environment, therefore do not stand a chance of mating. because neither one of them can survive in the others habitat.

2.assuming that scientists can extract the bird and the fish's reproductive cells, and fertilize them in a lab.this will still fail, because these two are from totally different species therefore conception will not even take place because of the DNA issues.