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Hybrid Inviability and Hybrid Sterility

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Hybrid inviability is a postzygotic barrier where a hybrid fails to survive to maturity; hybrid sterility is where a surviving hybrid cannot reproduce.

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A hybrid embryo that dies before birth shows inviability, while a mule, viable but sterile, shows sterility instead.

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Inviability blocks the hybrid from surviving at all — sterility lets it survive but blocks reproduction, a different failure point.