Sheep/goat chimera. Chimera or chimaera,a creature that contains a mixture of genetically- different tissues,in this case those of a sheep and a goat. A chimera is created by mixing togeth- er the cells from separate embryos,and then impl- anting them into a surrogate mother. The composite nature of this chimera can be seen as areas of thin white goat fur,and thick grey sheep wool. A chimera has a composite nature because the embryo cells were only physically mixed together; no genetic material was transferred between them. Its sex cells also developed from either one embryo or the other,meaning that its offspring will be "pure breeds",not another chimera | |
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