Maxwell Lol wrote:
BillinDetroit writes:

cross-breeding,

As shown below, the prohibition was against interbreeding "of two
sorts". That is, no matching up a camel with a bull, a chicken with a
goose and so on. To the best of my knowledge, only horses and asses
can breed like that and produce offspring, but even then, the
offspring (a mule) is sterile.
etc.

Wolves and dogs crossbreed.
liger - lion and tiger


"Male tigons are sterile while the females are generally fertile.
Because only female ligers and tigons are fertile, ligers and tigons
cannot reproduce with each other." (wikipedia article on tigons, see
similar in article about ligers)

Wikipedia has this to say about the relationship between wolves and
domestic breeds of dogs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canid

I don't want to make a major thread out of this. The original assertion
was that the Christian scriptures put cross-breeding of any sort off
limits, when the truth of the matter is that interbreeding of closely
related species was actually permitted. You CAN try to improve your
dairy herd.

These rules were delivered to people who lived a lot closer to the land
than most of us do and, without any need of DNA tests, knew not to
crossbreed sheep with dogs to to make certain that their best rams got
close to their best ewes.

Even if you COULD cross-breed oh, say, Bacillus Thuringensis with corn
.... you weren't to do it.

(ducking for cover!)

Bill
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