HYBRID INFORMATION WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Site 2: Should people be able to breed hybrid animals? https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/7857/raz_lz208_hybrida nimals_clr.pdf Make a list of 3 reasons why (pros) and 3 reasons why people should not (cons) be able to breed hybrid animals as they want. This is not on a 1. What is the definition of hybrid? (use the glossary at last page or p. 4) computer site but you may want to look back at more of Site #2!
PROS CONS 2. A mule is a hybrid of a horse and a donkey. If the mother is a horse it is called a mule. If the mother is a donkey, what is it called? (p. 4)
3. Fill in the blanks using the bottom of p. 5:
Like many ______animals, mules and hinnies are ______- unable to make sperm or ______to produce offspring. This situation stems
from the fact that different species of animals often have different
numbers of ______. Mules and hinnies receive ______
genetic information from their horse and donkey parents: ______
horse chromosomes from one parent and ______donkey
chromosome from the other. By contrast, ______animals end
up with a matched set of ______.
4. People breed hybrids for different reasons. Name 2-3 reasons why On Page ______in your notebook, choose 1: mules are easier to care for than horses. (p. 7) 1. Write a paragraph explaining your opinion on this issue.
Use convincing arguments and facts. You may use
5. Why don’t Ligers occur naturally in the wild? (p. 9) additional websites to defend your viewpoint. OR 2. Write a letter to someone describing a new animal hybrid you just discovered. It doesn’t need to be realistic. You
6. Why are Polar Bear-Grizzly hybrids such a big problem? (p. 18) should include a drawing of your discovery. OR 3. Choose either a liger or pizzly/grolar bear and create a
quick one-pager that includes pictures, facts about the
hybrid. Use the links I provided on my teacher page.
HYBRID ANIMALS
Site 1: Click Site 1 on Ms. Kroc’s Teacher Page!
Name of Hybrid Animals that make 1-2 Facts about it the Hybrid 1.
Glue this side down 2. in your science notebook! 3.
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