How can seedless watermelon reproduce without seeds?
I'm very puzzled! :)
2007-08-29 04:03:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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2007-08-29 04:08:10 · answer #1 · answered by General Leon Pleasant 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From website: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/newsletters/hortupdate/may00/h5may00.html
"The obvious question asked about growing seedless watermelons is: "How does one obtain seed of a seedless watermelon?" Obviously, you cannot save seed from a seedless watermelon. So, where do the seeds come from? Simply stated, the number of chromosomes (the threadlike bodies within cells that contain the inheritance units called genes) in a normal watermelon plant is doubled by the use of the chemical colchicine. Doubling a normal (diploid) watermelon results in a tetraploid plant (one having four sets of chromosomes). When the tetraploid plant is bred back, or pollinated, by a diploid or normal plant, the resulting seed produces a triploid plant that is basically a "mule" of the plant kingdom, and it produces seedless watermelons. Seed of seedless varieties are available from most major seed companies."
The site has a lot more info than this. Great question!
2007-08-29 04:12:21 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. The people producing them modify the seeds and then the seeds end up producing watermelons without seeds.
Also to the guy who answered above : Try and plant those soft seeds and see if anything comes out!
2007-08-29 04:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by B 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. But you get more seedless watermelons by a genetic modification made on normal watermelons, which, by the way, do reproduce.
:))
Funny question!
2007-08-29 04:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
good question..i always thought people took out the seeds in them, idt their naturla but im probably complteley wrong...but u no in that gavin degraw song "favorite fruit is chocolate covered starwberries, seedless watermelon, nothin from the grouuund is good enough" haha, yeah...thats were i get my knowlege from :)
2007-08-29 04:09:04 · answer #5 · answered by xox o.live.juice xox 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look a little closer -- they still have seeds, but there are fewer of them and they aren't as hard....
2007-08-29 04:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think they remove the seeds after? but then, how do they arrive at super markets unscarred? man, this is another mystery of life.
2007-08-29 04:11:53 · answer #7 · answered by waddlin' along 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
um, ya, see son...when two watermelons like each other.......
.......and that's what we call the birds and the bees...questions?
2007-08-29 04:10:12 · answer #8 · answered by bluesbrother74 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they have invisible seeds
2007-08-29 04:12:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they make test tube babies with their DNA?
2007-08-29 04:07:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋