so..... you're trying to tell me that this biological form of life evolved into a big fat ball of red goo???
like it's literally just a big fat red green fruit..... why is it so big??? who just decides one day to evolve into this thing???
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Hmm... It's almost as if it was intelligently designed.
No, but selectively bred for generations
>It's almost as if it was intelligently designed.
Yes. By humans.
In a finely tuned existence.
Go back
Fruit literally exists to get vored
its called selective breeding
Isn't this a just watermelon that didn't have enough water while growing? Regardless, I bet the wild ancestor has or had a disgusting amount of seeds.
>Isn't this a just watermelon that didn't have enough water while growing?
No, they were selectively bred over 300-400 years to be less terrible. Then the Japanese made them cubes and charged a fortune for them.
I thought the cubemelons were grown in crates/boxes so that that the fruit conforms to the shape of said crate/box rather than selectively bred to be cubes.
if it was that easy everyone would do it
It is that easy though, they do it in disneyland to make mickey mouse shaped melons
It's just nobody is as autistic as the Japanese and isn't going to pay hundreds of dollars for a square fruit
The square melon has advantages, like not having any wasted space in the lorry/truck during shipping so you can fit more melon per shipment.
Yeah but frick all that extra rind. And does the logistical advatage beat out the cost of maintaining square boxes?
"Extra" rind can be pickled.
Idk how much square-melon grow-box maintenance would cost.
The original melons in ancient Egypt from which we get modern watermelons were mostly grown for their seeds and the oil pressed from them.
Genetically Modified Organism
But via back breaking labor instead of tubes.
>Genetically Modified Organism
>But via back breaking labor instead of tubes.
WRONG.
selective breeding is NOT the same as genetic modification in a lab. the big corporate shills want you to think this so that you throw the baby out with the bath water and just go "oh no non-gmo and organic were selectively bred and therefor gmo? Oh no! frick it I will just buy conventional!" then you just got played
you forgot to actually present an argument
Not him, but he's right.
Selective breeding is completely different than transgenics.
Selective breeding works by changing allelic frequency within a gene pool.
Transgenics operates by introducing new genes entirely.
Conflating the two is intentional corporate misdirection.
>t. Former Monsanto Lab Cuck
not all GMOs are transgenics
if a gene is deleted, or the sequence is altered it is still classified as a GMO
however, if an organisms DNA is randomly mutated with radiation, it doesn't have to be called a GMO, pic related
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I'm aware.
But I'm telling you the spin that Bayer and similar organizations give on their tours.
Genetic knockout is a different beast than transgenics, and they don't want people realizing that.
Because transgenics are the ones that people are actually concerned about.
>Because transgenics are the ones that people are actually concerned about
You mean fear of the 10 GMOs available in the US is controlled opposition, diverting attention from real threats like thousands of man-made chemicals in products, including known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors
>diverting attention from real threats like thousands of man-made chemicals in products, including known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors
It's more simple than that.
A lot of it is because the EU doesn't want to compete with the US crop industry. They have a vested interest in undermining GMOs because they'll lose money if they can't regulate it
yes
they did the same with recycling
global warming is le bad, and it happens because you throw your candy wrapper out a car window (making indians sad).
Nothing to do with corporations, wasteful industry practices, or third world shitholes with no standards at all.
>Not him
Okay, but is one better than the other?
>but is one better than the other?
Honestly, I don't have an opinion on it.
I just don't like the misinformation surrounding the topic.
If you want to make corn big, selective breeding is great for that.
If you want corn that causes beetles and worms to explode, then you want transgenics.
Forgot to mention that a lot of "organic" food came from crops that were intentionally subjected to radiation in an attempt to make it better through random mutation. But now that food is perfectly fine and "organic" So what is wrong with taking a GMO crop and growing it in an organic farm?
gmo watermelon does not exist. try again
breeding plants isn't that hard though
>pick out tastiest plant
>save seeds
>plant all seeds
>start at step 1 & repeat
why did peaches plateau while watermelons got genetically bogged
Growing from a tree makes it hard to get swole
that's not true
on trees, you can grow pretty jacked fruits
me on the left
you think they plateaued?
>left : I need to find myself and enjoy my youth
>right : I’m ready to settle down now 🙂
Huh?
dumbass
Nah, I'm not getting it either.
Like, is it a commentary on youth or something?
Calling me a dumbass as well is just low effort on you, what are you reading into peach breeding?
Peaches are a common metaphor for veganas.
The joke is that the one on the left is a virgin and the one on the right is a used up prostitute
Ok that's just a boring reach.
Literally every food that vaguely looks like a vegana has some dingdong thinking it's peak humor to associate a more grotesque version with prostitutes.
Not even arguing if it's right or wrong, it's just been run into the dust and I wouldn't assume anyone trying to go for a joke would try for something so overdone anymore.
>cut open poorly-ripened watermelon
>paint it
>confuse people 400 years later
how did he do it bros?
This is how wild melons look like.
Multible times smaler, more and larger seeds. Pale flesh with little suger.
>Multible
we bred it that way as a joke
t. Greatest Ally™
When it's mating season for watermelons, they tend to look for a mate bigger and redder than themself. That way the children are even bigger and redder. lrn2evolution
No. It took us hundreds of years to selectively breed watermelons into being so large and sweet.
Both fruit and flowers evolved as defense mechanism for plants. They are a distraction. Animals will eat the fruit or flowers and leave the rest of the plant alone, thus enabling the plant to survive and eventually grow more fruit or flowers.
It's not a defender mechanism is a reproduction mechanism, that's why fruit is sweet to attract things to eat them and poop seeds in other places
What are you a fricking idiot? Fruit evolved specifically to get animals to eat the seeds, they're the primary propagation method for the plant. Avocadoes almost went extinct because they had evolved to rely so heavily on being eaten and digested by glyptodonts that when the glyptodonts went extinct they couldn't germinate their seeds anymore until humans figured out how to do it.
>glyptodonts
I miss these lil homies like you wouldn't believe.
They're all autistic just like me fr fr
>They're all autistic just like me fr fr
This moron and his detractors are both right. Low IQ board. Geniuses do not cook for a living. Sneed
Is a seed capsule you idiot, they're all big round balls filled with sugar.
I hope you're being serious, because I want this to be where you learn that almost all foods we eat have been selectively bred for positive characteristics.
fruit bearing plants literally evolved to have them eaten by animals who will then spread their seeds through poop
Iirc birds cant taste capsaicin or how hot something is which made them primary chili seed spreaders.
Most if not all modern fruit and veg you can buy in a grocery store has been painstakingly selectively grown over the course of thousands of years for the sole purpose of human consumption, assuming a farmed product
It's not something that happens instantly in a single generation of fruit. People eat fruit that's easier to get at, that fruit gets planted, they grow more, this repeats over and over again and again. Modern large scale farming is this on an unfathomably huge scale
Nah God did it
Someone get Dawkins on the horn... he's going to want to see this.
*beads of sweat forming*
You would know why if you actually paid attention during 5th grade biology instead of daydreaming about being molested by your uncle
my school didn't have biology until like 10th grade
a filipino pulled a knife on me one time in the back of a 10th grade biology class
I went to a 99 percent white school and the 1 Mexican that attended was a drug dealer and the 4 or 5 blacks were all known to steal from lockers.
Dear me, what shithole country is it that starts teaching bio that late?
>oh no the kids won't become... biologists?
we learn biology all along it's just not a class exclusively teaching it until high school. I took it in 9th grade
Our school has a science class, where biology is covered, and it's in year 9 that you can take a class solely dedicated to biology
>why is it so big???
Because watermelons are the best. Going to the store and picking one out. Then standing in line knowing everyone around you is just buying normal things and here you are, holding a watermelon so you can take it home, cut out a hole, and then frick it. They taste good too.
Lmao I really hope that you're trolling, or else we can teach you all about how food growing works
Most of the fruits we eat are pretty different from their native wild forms.
big fruits are water storage
Does the watermelon have any natural predators? It’s so heavy and thick skinned that it should probably be the dominant life form on earth.
I believe Ocean Side cats are a natural predator.
Das racis
so..... you're trying to tell me that this biological form of life evolved into a fat ball of yellow goo???
bro like how can all these birds be different species while chihuahua and great dane are the same species frickin taxonomy is a spook wtf
Species / Sub-Species you absolute ape.
Like Species = Human Sub-Species = Caucasian, african,asian blabla
Canis familiaris a species with both those dogs
all the birds in that picture are different species under one genus
how????????
>Sub-Species = Caucasian, african,asian blabla
That's not how that works, you fricking moron.
massive cope
A dog is a subspecies of wolf. A dachshund is not a subspecies of dog, you moron.
i agree, he's wrong about the dog part
The term you need to know is selected breeding
The term he actually needs to know is "selective breeding." Since it's the correct one.
so it's just a sheep photoshopped onto a melon?