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    Seedless Watermelon

    So where do the seeds come from to grow seedless watermelon?

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    Watermelon breeders discovered that crossing a diploid plant (bearing the standard two sets of chromosomes) with a tetraploid plant (having four sets of chromosomes) results in a fruit that produces a triploid seed. (Yes, it has three sets of chromosomes.) This triploid seed is the seed that produces seedless watermelons!
    Where does seedless watermelon come from?

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