>Any seed-grown tree is going to produce fruit that has characteristics of both its parents Not apples, they're exactly the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org

>Any seed-grown tree is going to produce fruit that has characteristics of both its parents Not apples, they're exactly the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Breeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Breeding >This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting genes from their parents to create a new apple with parental characteristics, they are instead significantly different from their parents, perhaps to compete with the many pests.