curious question

[chamfan23]

since chameleons can have several fertile clutches from one mating, does that mean if you mate the same female with multiple males the genes over lap, completely change to the most recent male that has mated with her, or have a chance of having the genes of either one of the males that mated with her? i hope this made sense.. i am very interested in biology and science, and this has always kind of puzzled me.

 

[morpheon]

It sounds logical, but i don't know much about biology, so i can't tell.

To me, unless if there is any study about it, i doubt that anyone will have the true answer! Maybe Kinyonga or Chris Anderson have an idea. I guess the only real way to know would be to do some DNA tests!

However, only the genes of the male would change, not the female's genes.

 

[jandie]

i know with dogs and cats, it is physically possible for two males to mate with the same female and the female actually give birth to almost a "half and half" kind of litter....with one part of the litter resembling (carrying the gene) of one male and the other part of the litter with the genes of the second male.... so i would assume it could be possible for reptiles. however, with individual eggs, it is unlikely that the same egg would be fertilized by both.... it's rare enough when there is only one egg to contend for like in humans, thus the lowered number of identical twins...so my guess is, it would be more like fraternal twins, except with the fact that there are different sires...

hope that made sense....