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Entries from April 24th, 2008

Papaya Clone

April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Biology

Scientists have succesfully cloned a papaya tree that has yielded many fruits. The papaya is not the first plant to be succesfully cloned, but the fifth. Its yielding of fruits shows that scientists can grow food from trees that were confirmed extinct a while ago if they can figure out the genome of the tree. [...]

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