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Hey dude, how's it going? :D Uh....I have a question about genderless Pokemon like Metagross, for example....how the heck do they breed? I mean, Ditto is self explanatory due to being made of cells, so I think it can literally be gender fluid/switching. However, how does a Metagross and similar Pokemon breed? I've thought about this, but I can't really come up with a good answer myself, so I need some help. ^^;
Hey man! Sorry it took me so long to answer this. But thatās an interesting question. I donāt think thereās really an answer for it, since breeding specifics are left ambiguous, but we can do some speculating.
In-game, first off, genderless Pokemon (besides Legendaries) can breed with Ditto, so we know that they are capable of breeding under the right circumstances.
In Pokemon Stadium 2, genderless Pokemon who were able to breed were placed in a new pseudo-Egg Group called āthe Gender unknown Egg Groupā. This Egg Group isnāt included in other games, but I think āgender unknownā is a key phrase. Perhaps these Pokemon are just a different gender (outside of male and female), and can still breed but canāt breed with Pokemon who are male or female. By breeding with ditto, who can assume any gender, they are still capable of reproducing.
Iām not sure the logic of why two genderless or gender unknown Pokemon canāt breed with each other - such as two Metagross - when they can breed with Ditto. Iām assuming that they really could in the Pokemon world, but canāt for gameplay purposes. So maybe theyāre just also Pokemon who, for whatever reason, wonāt breed together in captivity.
Sorry I donāt have a definite answer for you, but if anyone has more thoughts on genderless Pokemon and breeding, Iād love to hear them!
I have a bit of input if you donāt mind!Ā Iāve answered questions similar to this before, so if you want some good reads about PokĆ©mon Gender/Sex/Reproduction you can check out Salazzle, this theory, Marill, or theseĀ twoĀ asks.
Biological sex is just as complicated in the animal kingdom as you would expect it to be. The chromosomes that determine human sex are paired in XX and XY, whereas other animals may have WZ or ZZ, and some even have more than two, forming XXXX or XXYY or WXYZ.
However, you brought up a good point that gave me a new idea though: the PokĆ©mon Stadium 2Ā āGender unknown Egg Groupā. Genderless pokĆ©mon do have an egg group: Bronzong is in the āMineralā egg group and Starmie is in the āWater 3ā³ egg group for example. All pokĆ©mon, of course, hatch from eggs. This includes genderless pokĆ©mon, so if they hatch from eggs, why canāt they lay them themselves? To answer this, letās do a quick crash course about what egg-reproduction looks like via chickens.Ā
Hens lay an egg about once a day: itās essentially the chicken equivalent of a menstrual period. Unless the egg is fertilized before the hen lays it, however, it will never hatch (unless the organism is parthenogenetic like Salazzle, which genderless pokĆ©mon are not). The egg yolk is formed in the ovaries, much like with human reproduction. It then travels along the oviduct: this is the stage where it gets fertilized by a roosterās sperm, if it can. It then builds up the layers of the egg around the yolk, such as the extra protein, the membrane, and finally the shell. Then the egg exits the chicken and is officially laid.
The simple answer to this question would be that genderless pokĆ©mon like Metagross never get to the first step. They canāt produce eggs. Ditto can, and so perhaps Genderless pokĆ©mon can fertilize the eggs, which is how they can ultimately reproduce. In this sense, genderless pokĆ©mon would effectively be entirely male. Entirely female species can still reproduce (as shown with Salazzle), but male pokĆ©mon would be down on their luck.
The more complicated answer lies with a mule: A mule, of course, is a cross breed between a donkey and a horse. A child typically inherits half of its chromosomes from each parent. A horse has 64 chromosomes, and a donkey has 62. (Humans have 46 for reference). The horse parent contributes 32 chromosomes to the child, and the donkey parents contributes 31. This means that the mule has a total of 63 chromosomes. This is an odd number: which is generally considered a problem because chromosomes need to match up in pairs. An odd number of chromosomes in humans causes Down syndrome. For a mule, the chromosomes canāt match up at all: they canāt find any similar enough to themselves to form a pair. While horses and donkey genes are similar enough to reproduce, the chromosomes are too different to pair up. Instead of having an even-number of chromosome pairs, a mule effectively has 63 individual chromosomes. Because of this, a mule is incapable producing eggs or sperm. It is the difference between mitosis and meiosis: creating an identical copy of DNA versus creating a half-copy of DNA. Mitosis mule cells can do: meiosis is where the problem lies.
((As a side note, egg groups in pokĆ©mon are likely split based on number of chromosomes! Something with 46 chromosomes like a human might be in the āHuman-likeā egg group, where something with 64 chromosomes like a horse could be in the āFieldā egg group with Ponyta and Mudsdale.))
Letās bring this back to genderless pokĆ©mon. They can reproduce, so theyāre not exactly like mules, but hopefully you get the idea. Genderless pokĆ©mon possibly have an odd number of chromosomes, so it is impossible to divide that in half to breed with their own species. But they can breed with ditto, which basically means that Ditto blurs the line between mitosis and meiosis, possibly using a different method of reproduction altogether. Something about Ditto enables the genderless pokĆ©monās chromosomes to find matched pairs and be able to reproduce.
Of course, this almost certainly differs from pokƩmon to pokƩmon, but hopefully you get the general idea.
Genderless pokƩmon have an odd number of chromosomes, which makes them unable to reproduce with members of their own species.
I hope that helps!
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