• Question: How will polution affect species reproduction?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 9 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      Pollution chemicals can interfere with the quality of the reproductive materials, making it reproduction impossible or might cause unexpected mutations

    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      Pollution also effects our offspring so that animals, plants and people grow up with chemicals all around them that they have to cope with. The less pollution the healthier the offspring.

    • Photo: Alessandro Guazzi

      Alessandro Guazzi answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      A lot of species already have been affected! The main problems tend to come from water-pollution, as the chemicals which get into the water then affect a very large food-chain. And its not just “other” species which have been affected- humans living in polluted areas have been found to have a lot less sperm cells. As Claudia says, the less pollution the better!

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