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Why seedless watermelons can't reproduce
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Nature did not invent the convenient fruit; chemists did. By treating seedlings with colchicine, scientists double the plant's chromosomes. When crossed with a normal melon, the resulting offspring has an odd number of chromosomes, rendering it completely sterile. Your easy-to-eat summer snack is a biological dead end manufactured for your chewing comfort.
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