Questions tagged [hybridization]

The way "species" has always been described to me is that a species is different if the two animals cannot have fertile offspring, with the caveat that language is imprecise and sometimes different species can produce fertile hybrids. For example,…

Recently doing a little reading on interspecies hybrids I noticed that it seems interspecies hybrids are most often much larger than either parent. Notably, Ligers, Dzo and Savannah Cats, but it seems like all or at least most. Is there a reason…

For flowering plants, what might cause the genome size of offspring from a cross between 2 diploid parent of differing genome size to reflect only a partial contribution by the larger genome size parent? Many hybridizers of Rhododendron attempt wide…

We had in class following question which I had no idea how to get to the correct answer: The carrion crow and the hooded crow are fertile together, but their reproductive success is reduced by 50%. In a certain region exist two populations…