Hybrids

[Kersten]

I think it depends who you ask and whether they're on the giving or receiving end of the accurate/pedantic information :wink:

[boa]

You could be right or maybe not.

[Hix]

Originally Posted by boa

Actually they have to be seperate species to be hybrids technically.

Originally Posted by Kersten

I think it depends who you ask and whether they're on the giving or receiving end of the accurate/pedantic information :wink:

Originally Posted by boa

You could be right or maybe not.

In both cases, boa is correct.



Hix

[Kersten]

We knew that Hix

[Sdaji]

Actually, hybrid doesn't mean a cross between two species. It means a cross between two things which are different in some way. Only one allele ("gene") needs to be different between two animals for it to qualify as a hybrid mating, and some important hybridisations do involve only one gene, the genetics literature is full of hybridisation studies which involve only one gene.

Colloquially, the term hybrid often means "interspecific hybrid", but interspecific hybrids (hybrids between two species) are by no means the only kind. It is perfectly valid to call any cross a hybrid, as long as you're refering to some difference between the parents, no matter how small that difference is.

Feel free to grab a biological dictionary and look the term up

[leptir]

So you are saying that a male and female human having a child are hybrids?

[Sdaji]

It depends on the context you're speaking in. If you were doing a study on the genetics of hair phenotype, you might refer to the offspring of two straight haired people as non hybrids and the offspring between curly and straight haired people as hybrids. That doesn't for a moment mean they are interspecific hybrids.

[Reptile_king]

lol

[Sdaji]

Maybe the easiest way to answer the question is to grab a dictionary. A biological dictionary will give you a more detailed and explained answer, but a regular dictionary should be fine too.

Entering "hybrid" into www.dictionary.com should do the job nicely.