[pbs] permanent clones??
John Bryan
johnbryan at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 5 13:49:42 EDT 2004
Dear Ben:
Thanks for your posting. Re clones, surely our apple clones, Cox's
Orange Pippin, as an example, is still the same today as many years ago?
The same with all other fruit clones that have been around, some for
well over 100 years. Why have they not changed? Cheers, John E. Bryan
zonneveld wrote:
>
> Kevin wrote:And then there are things/clones that exists through
> time w/o change.
> I am sure every clone will in time accumulate rare mutations
> Actually if a single clone is multiplied in two different locations by
> two different people they will in time differ It may be sometime
> before a visible mutation has happened
> Ben J.M.Zonneveld
> Institute of Biology,Leiden University, Clusius lab
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