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The chances are very very remote that it will form an organism. The zygote may not form at all, maybe the zygote will die, maybe it will not be able to form more advanced stages, maybe the organism will form and soon die, or maybe the organism will live(mules for example)

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The chances of another organism having the same chromosomes is not too uncommon, but even so:

The information ON those chromosomes has to be extremely similar in order for any organism to form...

If it were as easy as you make it sound in your original post... we might just have flying pigs!

In short, nothing would happen. It just wouldn't even form a zygote, just as ron said.

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The mixing of DNA from two widely distinct lifeoforms to form a new lifeform is not normally observed, even in the lab. The question is why? The answer has to do with equilibrium hydrogen bonding. The cellular grid of a female's gamete cell defines a particular potential that is in equilibirum with her 1/2 DNA structure. Addition of the wrong DNA will induce the cytoplasmic grid into nonequilibrium without a good way to restore equilibrium. The correct male DNA will also form nonequilibrium but the rest of the cell is organized to lower potential via the formation of the zygote.

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