To determine: The quality of apples from the trees planted by Johnny Appleseed and to know if the seeds are faithful replica of the original tree.
Introduction: Reproduction is an important process by which parents organisms produce offspring’s. Flowering plants are beings that reproduce both by asexual and sexual methods. Asexual reproduction happens without fusion of gametes whereas sexual reproduction occurs by fusion of gametes to form an embryo.
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Johnny Appleseed had distributed apple seeds in the United States in the year 1800s. He preferred seeds over grafting the plants. By the process of grafting the apple plants would form would be exact clones of the parent plant. But by growing the plants through seeds the apple plant could adapt and grow well to the new conditions provided. Thus the seeds got from apples produce trees that are not the exact clones of parent. The quality of apples got from his plantation was not good as it was not edible and was only used for cider purposes.
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