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What happens when a sperm and an egg of two different species come in contact with each other? Does the egg not even let the sperm in, or does it let it in but then the zygote DNA doesn't fuse? What happens with the conception of hybrid species like ligers?

by /u/pythonidae_love in /r/askscience

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