Anonymous submitted: My sister has an African Clawed frog. It's female because it's laid tons of infertile eggs. The eggs would just sit in the bowl and rot until we threw them out. This last clutch of eggs I took out and put in a petri dish and well, I fertilized them with my own semen. The fucking things are developing! WTF I don't know if I should flush them down the toilet or what. No one else at home knows about my little experiment. Would it be murder if I just flush them?
- There is no way in hell that a human gamete and a frog gamete could come together to create an organism.
- Cells are smart—there are multiple ways they can recognize when a cell isn’t of their own species. They have a lot of mechanisms in place to deal with foreign cells.
- A plain petri dish isn’t the proper environment for fertilization and growth. The cell(s) would die.
- Frogs and humans have a different number of chromosomes (36 vs 46). This means the cell couldn’t divide properly, and the resulting daughter cells would immediately/eventually die.
- If by some miracle, a zygote did occur, there’s no way it could grow to a full organism without some sort of surrogate/similar environment. Again, it’d eventually die.
Hey, trolling anon? Maybe you watched Splice one too many times.
Also, I should probably mention that I used to be a genetics major, and it remains one of my many loves.
I should also mention that I just woke up, and I’m kinda a grumpy gills at the moment. Maybe I should hop into the shower.
