How to make crocodile fly? Answer it scientifically.

Question

include the concepts of developmental and evolutionary biology

Answer 1

The only viable way is to buy it an aircraft ticket.!!

Answer 2

You can't control evolution.

Put it on a plane.

Answer 3

First, you need a zipper about a foot long.

Answer 4

The only way for a crocodile to fly is to develop wings itself.

To this, it must first have a gene mutated, and the new gene must mean it evolves suitable wings.

If the gene is recessive, it would take a while as the crocodile would have to find another crocodile with the same mutation, or an even more recessive gene, to breed with, meaning the wings are passed to the offspring.

This way, the whole population of crocodiles could have wings, if the wings proved to be largely beneficial. There are problems, but I will address these later.

If the gene is dominant, the same principle would apply, but it would be much quicker as if the mutated crocodile bred with a crocodile  with a less dominant gene in that place, then the mutation would be passed to the offspring and the natural selection would take place.

The problems are:

+It is very unlikely that crocodile genes could be mutated to give them wings

+Wings most likely take a long time to evolve, including many stages

+Wings may not be useful to crocs as when they are in the water, the wings would only hold them back

+Wings would not be useful, as the crocodile already has a better method of catching prey, and has no natural predators (wings would not help it escape from humans)

+A ridiculous amount of muscle would be needed for the crocodile to actually fly.

So as you can see, although it is slightly theoretically possible, it is highly unlikely and probably be useless, mean natural selection could eradicate it.

Hope this helped!

Answer 5

fennec your concepts seem rather out of line with the way evolution happens which makes me think you haven't studied it as extensively as you'd like to think..

the only way a croc WOULD evolve wings was if there were selective pressure for it.. and a croc in it's modern state would not ever have a need for that

rewind a couple hundred million years to where dinosaurs split off from where they share a link with crocs.. small theropod dinosaurs stood advantage to having at least projections on their arms for coralling small game into corners and tight spaces where they may be more easily picked off.. couple this with the ability to jump longer and eventually glide and pressure to start formal flight begins giving the ones that flap while the jump a few extra inches of reach to get at more insects and creature on trees, etc.. and evenutally you get better and better jumpers to point where they basically glide from tree to tree..

extrapolate this out of the dense forsets and flight becomes longer and longer untill what's left is essentially a bird..

that all is of course if this is a counter-evolution, creationist argument..

if this is for a school course, or homwork assignment or something

the natural selection favors those who could get at higher and higher food untill flight is developed.. that should be specific enough to qualify for the question at hand