Explain why lions and tigers
belong to different species, even though they can sometimes breed
together.

Answer

Well, lions have mains right? Tigers don't. So why is that? It is because they have different behaviors. Tigers like to swim, and lions don't , right? They have different habitats, social hierarchies, and they have there own subset of genes. Like how tigers have stripes and lions don't. They have a different pigment gene that determines what color there fur is. Like how snow tigers are white and Siberian tigers are orange. That is because the snow tiger is missing the gene that makes their fur orange.

the cladogram shown here shows similarities and differences among several classes of vertebrates. anatomically, the four have limb structure as their common ancestor. we might separate the mammals from the other three classes because they a) divergent; do not lay eggs b) identical; are warm-blooded c) varied; a four chambered heart d) homologous; have mammary glands