Do you think a person and a monkey could conceive?

Question

what primate has the most similar dna to us? is it the chimp? could a chimp and a human conceive a weird chimp baby? regardless of what s*x either party is, would the dna be similar enough to conceive offspring?

Answer 1

I agree w/ sketch skeptic. Monkey & humans could not mate & produce viable offspring. Like he said the def. of species says they CAN & WILL produce viable offspring. I don't think it's very likely that they would do this on their own....w/o help from weird scientist trying to s***w up the natural order of things.

Answer 2

No No no no no no no. We don't have the same number of chromosomes, for one thing. Chimpanzees however have the most similar DNA to us, and us to them (they are more closely related to us then they are to gorillas, orangutans, or gibbons). We actually have more genetic similarity to chimpanzees then Asian and African elephants have in common with each other. Also, chimpanzees are monkeys, if thats what your question is implying. they are apes.

Answer 3

Human DNA has 23 chromosome pairs. Other apes have 24. I'm not sure about monkey DNA, but I'm willing to bet that it wouldn't work.

Answer 4

While very similar species sometimes do hydridize in nature, such as horses and donkeys to make mules, humans are too far removed from our closest relative, the chimp, to be able to cross.  Although, on average we have just above 90% similarity with chimps (down from the 98% once estimated), the biggest barrier is that chimps have their genome distributed in 24 chromosome pairs, and we have 46.  The animal world does not tolerate this discrepancy often (although plants often do) and, at best, fertilization would likely end in miscarriage.

There once was a supposed hybrid, a "humanzee" named Oliver (check out YouTube for video), but DNA testing found him to be just a weird Bonobo chimp.  I suppose if by some crazy event there was a hybrid, the human parent would not be super-anxious to bring attention  to the situation.  Still, extremely unlikely.

BTW, monkeys are out all-together.

Answer 5

I dont think so. Although we are close, the definition of species is that they cannot produce viable offspring. Although this means that the offspring may just not be able to reproduce themselves (such as mules), or that there may be behavioural barriers, (such as different mating routines), its likely that the chimp body would recognize the sperm, or the fetus at foreign and the immune system would attack it, causing a miscarraige (if it even got that far)