“That’s because apples happen to be extremely heterozygous, meaning that just one tree can produce an incredible variation in offspring, leaving no two apple trees the same. At some point (archaeological evidence suggests at least 5,000 years ago), humans figured out how to cultivate them: “Discovering that you cut off a branch of one tree, stick it onto the root stock of another tree,” says Spengler, “and then preserve that specific variety.” With this, the modern apple was born.”
I wonder if the apple was not only vastly different, but had substantially different nutritional profiles?
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“That’s because apples happen to be extremely heterozygous, meaning that just one tree can produce an incredible variation in offspring, leaving no two apple trees the same. At some point (archaeological evidence suggests at least 5,000 years ago), humans figured out how to cultivate them: “Discovering that you cut off a branch of one tree, stick it onto the root stock of another tree,” says Spengler, “and then preserve that specific variety.” With this, the modern apple was born.”
I wonder if the apple was not only vastly different, but had substantially different nutritional profiles?