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Name: Mark V.
Status: student
Age: 10
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Date: 1/9/2004
Question:
Do the same kind of apples have the same number of pits or seeds? And do different apples have different number of seeds /pits?

Replies:
The number of seeds is quite variable depending upon all sorts of factors. The following might be helpful.

http://www.geocities.com/perfectapple/science.html

Anthony Brach, Ph.D


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