I like to pretend that Cody’s attempts to get Obi Wan to wear armour also extends to Ahsoka bc George Lucas made it so she wears an elastic band as a shirt in an active war zone so the idea of Cody mothering her and making sure she’s protected is very enjoyable to me.
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Fun fact: almost all of the apples you eat are clones!
You see, apples have extraordinary variety in their phenotypes. Just like dogs, their fruit can vary so much that it’s hard to believe that they even come from the same species.
Except unlike a dog (where if you breed two boxers together, you’ll get another boxer), apple genetics have so much variety that every single seed planted will sprout into something completely new (and likely foul-tasting).
Even if you pollinate an apple tree with its own pollen, enough genetic re-combining will happen so that the resulting tree will produce fruit that is absolutely nothing like the fruit of its singular parent.
This makes apples (and other tree fruits) extremely difficult to selectively breed, so almost every single apple variety simply… isn’t selectively bred! Almost all apples, save for GMOs, were basically spontaneously generated by nature and simply propagated by humans.
But how do you propagate a set of genetics that doesn’t grow “true to seed”? Easy.
You graft.
Plants, unlike animals, are eager to accept any marginally similar flesh as their own.
You can cut off a branch of a tree (or a stem of almost any plant), affix the branch of a different tree (called a scion) over top the newly-created wound, and the base tree (called the rootstock) will heal them together and incorporate the new branch into its vasculatory system.
Not only will a tree willingly incorporate tissue of any member of its species, many trees will also take on the tissue of other species!
If it’s done while the tree is young enough, you can get a tree with very sturdy roots AND nothing but perfect apples from the waist up.
Grafting is the oldest form of cloning. It’s an agricultural practice with evidence of practice as far back as 2,000 BCE
Could you imagine if animals were like that? You could just stick something on and it would just work?
(I can’t help but wonder if ancient people ever tried grafting livestock together after seeing that it works with crops)
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clone trooper picrew
hello wassup im maybe kinda sorta POSSIBLY thinking/already-trying to make a clone trooper picrew for FUN I GUESS...
if anyone has suggestions for things to add, i'm all ears!!!! idk exactly how much stuff like clothing/accessories you can add, but we'll see how it goes. (dead set on at least a crop top and boob window)
NO PROMISES THO.... also i never made a picrew before.... we'll see how far i can get.
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