On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:07:55 -0600, sherwindu wrote:
You missed the point. The resultant apple will have the genetic makeup of some

recessed genes, and will not resemble the original apple, no matter what. You

Please, please... pick up a good basic genetics book and do some reading.
"Recessed genes"? You think they're on holiday break? Better yet, a
good basic plant breeding text sounds like it needs to be on your list.

There are some really interesting issues in apple genetics, including
ploidy levels, polygenic inheritance and a tendency to "bud sport". In
fact, it's fairly common to find an oddball branch on a grafted tree,
clearly tissue grown from the graft, but with different fruit characters
from most of the rest of the tree. Chimerism and mosaicism have played
an important part in the development of a lot of tree fruit cultivars.

Genetic diversity isn't something to be scorned...

Kay