Are seedless grapes the cause of a mutation? If so, how?

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Hi, I need to answer this question for science, but I'm having trouble finding the answers. Weblinks and other information would be much appreciated. Or, if you could think of a genetics question similar to that then that would be helpful too. Thanks!

Answer 1

They pay workers from 3rd world countries 10 cents an hour to pick em out by hand.

Answer 2

Indeed they are. Obviously seedless grapes would not be able to continue making more grape plants since there are no seeds. But farmers made seedless grapes by picking bunches with less seeds then the other bunches and replanting/growing those with less seeds. Soon there ended up being little or no seeds. Farmers can perhaps maintain a grape plant that produces little or no seeds. If it dies, they can just replant some saved seeds or some other grapes.
It is a mutation because the mutation on the grapes DNA causes less or no grapes to be produced compared with what is considered "normal" It is the mutations that are selected by the farmers. This sort of unnatural selection is used in many types of agriculture and can work in basically any organism with DNA.
A side note: Grapes that mutate to have less or no seeds would not have a very good chance of making succeeded generations of grapes since they can't reproduce well or at all. So nature normally lets that mutation die.
Hope that helps

Answer 3

It's better to think of cause/effect the other way around. Seedless grapes are a "result" of a mutation, not the cause.

As previously explained, the grape farmers would have replanted grapes with ever fewer seeds to initially grow seedless ones. But once the seedless ones resulted, more vines can be grown by grafting branches of seedless grape vines onto seeded vines. The branches from one seedless vine could continue to be grown and grafted endlessly as the branches from that original vine would always grow seedless grapes even though grafted to other non-seedless vines.

Answer 4

i dont know sorry

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