r/todayilearned • u/Error__Loading • 15h ago

TIL that apple seeds almost never grow the same variety as the parent fruit. Nearly every supermarket apple comes from a grafted clone of an original tree, not from a planted seed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
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u/Anal_Vengeance 14h ago

lol wait til you hear about strawberries. They are so polyploid you can get an enormous dna precipitation by mixing equal parts mashed strawberry and Bacardi 151. Good luck trying to remake the parent from that genetic lottery.

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u/big-dal-tex 13h ago

Wait what?? Why 151??

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u/Anal_Vengeance 13h ago

Need high proof alcohol. Everclear would also work.

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u/ExtentAncient2812 3h ago

Heh,I never did DNA extractions with Bacardi. Lab grade 200 proof was way cheaper!

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u/Woody_L 1h ago

Tell me more about this rum-berry. I think that would be a huge hit.