In Greek legends the chimera was a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and tail of a serpent. Today, such weird hybrid creatures are no longer imaginary; for research purposes, scientist have created living animals that are part sheep and part goat.
A sheep-goat chimera has four parents: male and a female sheep and male and a female goat. One embryo is taken from a pregnant sheep and another from a pregnant goat. Then cells from both embryos are combined to form a sheep-goat embryo. This embryo is then returned to the sheep or goat, where it grows until birth.
A sheep-goat chimera has four parents: male and a female sheep and male and a female goat. One embryo is taken from a pregnant sheep and another from a pregnant goat. Then cells from both embryos are combined to form a sheep-goat embryo. This embryo is then returned to the sheep or goat, where it grows until birth.
SHEEP-GOAT CHIMERA: The product of breeding experiment, this chimera may point to a new way to save endangered species.
By creating chimeras, scientists hope to find ways of enabling one animal to give birth to a different species of animal. The aim: to enable a sheep embryo, for example, to develop in a goat "host" mother but to be born as a sheep. If the offspring of species could be sucessfully bred, the technique could save animals in danger of extinction.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
In truth the experiment fails to expand the creatures life, in just a few years the animal died either naturaly in just a few years or suffering from major diseases such as cancer and etc.
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