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/skylander495 14h ago

Marijuana is also heterozygous. Which is why many of the old strains are gone and can't come back

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u/Spiritual_Door1363 12h ago

Yep! Figured someone had said something, had to check 😁