Can a human female get pregnant to a chimpanzee?

Question

Can a human female get pregnant to a chimpanzee?

Answer 1

Yes. but i wouldn't recommend it.

Answer 2

NO YOU MIGHT THINK THEY CAN BUT REALLY THEY CANT BECUASE OUR CELL , DNA.STRUTURE, GENETICS AND REPRODUCITON IS NOT THE SAME. IF ONE OR MORE ARE DIFFERNT THEN THERE CAN BE NO REPRODUCTION.

Answer 3

No, we have speciated.  This means that large blocks of DNA in our genomes are in sufficiently different locations so as to block efficient chromosomal pairing during mitosis.  Without such pairing, chromosomes cannot be faithfully separated into daughter cells, i.e. the resulting cells are typically non-viable.  When the majority of cells following cell division are non-viable, the embryo cannot form.

EDIT: The above poster points out that the sperm and the egg must be able to recognize each other.  I assure you that human proteins and chimpanzee proteins, are typically 98-100% identical, so this theoretical concern would likely not prevent fertilization.  It is the movement of large regions of DNA throughout the genome that defines speciation.

Answer 4

I asked my boyfriend that the other day :P

We came to the conclusion that if they did (assuming they have different amounts of chromosomes), the baby would turn out very mutated. It probably wouldnt live long.

Answer 5

Are you kidding. One is Human and One is Chimp.

Answer 6

Maybe ... i dont think it's been tested for many ethical reasons. Here are a few biological reasons why it wouldn't work.

1. The female human body would probably detect the male chipanzee sperm as 'foreign' and therefore destroy it

2. The genetic information of human even though it is VERY similar to that of a chimp may not be similar enough for a baby to grow

3. And even if a baby was born ... it probably wouldn't be viable, meaning the baby wouldn't be able to reproduce and have kids of it's own and therefore create a new species.

I'm not saying that it couldn't happen, but it would be really amazing if it did!!! =)

Answer 7

No

The immediate families are different for Monkey and Man

A horse and a donkey can produce a baby - called a mule because the immediate families are the same

However the mule is a hermaphrodite - that is - incapable of further reproduction

Answer 8

As the above poster pointed out, the outer layer of the sperm and the egg must have compatible surface glycoproteins. This 'safety system' is quite efficient and only bypassed by species which separated in a very recent past (eg horse and ***, lion and tiger, wolf and dog).

I think it *could* be possible, although I think humanity could and should go medieval on the mad doctor trying such an experiment. The resulting hybrid would be probably viable, but sterile (there are several translocations and inversions differentiating the human and chimp chromosomes, each one would result in a loss of fertility)

There are reports of someone trying just that in Russia in the '40s, with volunteer women (and you know as well as I do that "Soviet volunteer" is an oxymoron)

Answer 9

Nature usually prevents cross mating. From what I remember, sperm are not created equal, and it would not have the capacity to break through the egg. For example, human sperm have frutose at the head to eat through the outerlayer of the egg, something which may be specific only to humans.

Answer 10

I would imagine that the gamates have to "match up" in some way - e.g. have the same number of chromosomes or the same type of DNA or something like that.

But, man - that's some weird p**n you're watching there! :P To each their own...

Jokes. :P