(A) OAlsanda Draghid/Sioc FIGURE 9-1 (A) These apple fruits have developed from flowers, and the seeds inside the fruits developed from egg cell nside the flowers. Allegg cells produced by this tree have similar genes, but sperm cells were necessary to fertilize the eggs, and bees may have brought many types of sperm cell fom many different apple trees. Although every seed here has the same maternal parent (the tree i the photo), it is possible that all the seeds have different paternal parents. The seeds are not genetically identical.

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Look at the apples as shown, all growing on a single tree. Do all of the seeds in all of the apples in the photograph have the same maternal parent? Do they all have the same paternal parent?

(A) OAlsanda Draghid/Sioc
FIGURE 9-1 (A) These apple fruits have developed from flowers, and the seeds inside the fruits developed from egg cell nside the flowers. Allegg cells produced by this tree have similar
genes, but sperm cells were necessary to fertilize the eggs, and bees may have brought many types of sperm cell fom many different apple trees. Although every seed here has the same
maternal parent (the tree i the photo), it is possible that all the seeds have different paternal parents. The seeds are not genetically identical.
Transcribed Image Text:(A) OAlsanda Draghid/Sioc FIGURE 9-1 (A) These apple fruits have developed from flowers, and the seeds inside the fruits developed from egg cell nside the flowers. Allegg cells produced by this tree have similar genes, but sperm cells were necessary to fertilize the eggs, and bees may have brought many types of sperm cell fom many different apple trees. Although every seed here has the same maternal parent (the tree i the photo), it is possible that all the seeds have different paternal parents. The seeds are not genetically identical.
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