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wasteofo2
Apr11-04, 10:12 PM
Let's say one was breeding a type of animal, and they wanted all males to have certain characteristics, and all females to have a different set of characteristics. If said breeder had 2 female animals with the characteristics it wanted, could the breeder take the genetic material from the unfertilized ovum of female A and implant it in an ovum of female B, and then artificially implant the fertilized ovum into the uterus of one of the females?

I know this sounds weird, but is it possible, is there anything which would stop the non sex chromosomes from conjoining normally to make a diploid zygote, or anything different between the x chromosome of an ovum and the x chromosome of a sperm?

Simmilarly, could one take the genetic material out of an ovum and implant the genetic material of one X sperm and one Y sperm?

Thanks for entertaining my warped mind's curiosity,
Jacob

Monique
Apr12-04, 05:19 AM
I once played with this same idea in a PhysicsPost (http://www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=171) article..

wasteofo2
Apr12-04, 09:40 AM
Thanks, I actually understood most everything in that article! However, I don't see how a mouse could be conceived from 3 sets of genetic material, were its somatic cells triploid?