thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Shitty Movie Details@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoin dragon ball humans and sayians can mate without problem implying almost all species have the same reproduction systemlemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1imagein dragon ball humans and sayians can mate without problem implying almost all species have the same reproduction systemlemmy.blahaj.zonethiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Shitty Movie Details@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square12linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 days agoGrizzly and Polar bears can produce fertile offspring. By definition, that makes them the same species.
minus-squareturdas@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoThat is not the definition of a species. All the different species I listed in my previous post also produce fertile offspring.
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoIncorrect. As I said, mules are not fertile, nor are Tigrons/Ligers; neither can have their own offspring. A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Grizzly and Polar bears can produce fertile offspring.
By definition, that makes them the same species.
That is not the definition of a species. All the different species I listed in my previous post also produce fertile offspring.
Incorrect.
As I said, mules are not fertile, nor are Tigrons/Ligers; neither can have their own offspring.
A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.