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Interesting how there are white splashes among the red.
I posted this photo of FB and Hazel Nut posted that the white was due to cross pollination. ::smacks her forehead:: That’s just not how that shit works. And man, she stuck to her guns until I typed up this explanation:
“There are other causes for changes in the flowers. But they are fully formed with all of their DNA currently intact, so there’s no way pollen would change that particular blossom. Any seeds coming from that blossom could very well be different colors or striped/spotted.
To put it in crude terms, it’s the same reason porn stars don’t change just because they take a money shot in the face. They are already fully formed and have all of their DNA. Introducing foreign DNA (which, honestly, it’s only HALF the DNA that is required to create a new being), doesn’t change them at all. Now, if they were to get pregnant (mixing the two DNAs), then yes, the child would look like a mixture of the two adults.”
Please don’t try to out science me on these things on the most basic level. 9 times out of 10, I’ll win just because I’m a walking encyclopedia of good trivia. ::chuckles::
I’m still burnt the fuck out from yesterday. I just want people to leave me the fuck alone right now. So yeah, I probably wasn’t as polite as I could have been to Hazel Nut, but come on. She really thought bees pollinating a fully formed flower would change the genetic makeup of said flower????
I just need the world to stop spinning for 24 full hours. 24 full hours of QUIET. Is that too much to ask?
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