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Doubt it's fake.
What's wrong with it anyway, why would it be fake?
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Anyways, I can see why this tree is worth $1,000,000--it is a genetic marvel. Not to mention it produces like x2-x5 more coconuts than an average tree. Think about it--a farmer could grow x2-x5 more coconuts in the same acreage of land with this tree. I know the article said in 20 years they will try to have more of these tree, but for now this is the ONLY one in the world (known). Think of it as having the only golden retriever with purple fur in the world.
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Anyways, I can see why this tree is worth $1,000,000--it is a genetic marvel. Not to mention it produces like x2-x5 more coconuts than an average tree. Think about it--a farmer could grow x2-x5 more coconuts in the same acreage of land with this tree. I know the article said in 20 years they will try to have more of these tree, but for now this is the ONLY one in the world (known). Think of it as having the only golden retriever with purple fur in the world.
So the tree may be real.
But not to be the dick that has to argue with everyone, a purple furd dog would die, and if it mates with anyone else, it only has a 50/50 chance of being purple fur, less or more depending on other characteristics of the gene.
The tree might be worth something if it asexually reproduces. But I don't see it being a big hit in America. Theres always some idiot trying to scare others with false accusations on biotechnology. Which is mainly the reason you don't see widespread use of biotechnology in America.
What do you mean there's no widespread use of biotechnology in America? Every fruit/vegetable that you eat comes from a plant that has been altered by botanists to produce the most food/be the best quality.
And actually the chance to reproduce a recessive gene is 25% or 1/4 (not
calculating in some genes that only come bound together with other genes).
The point of the experiment to make more trees like this one is to mate it with hundreds of other trees in order to determine if the tree's gene is simply recessive or a genetic mutation.
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What do you mean there's no widespread use of biotechnology in America? Every fruit/vegetable that you eat comes from a plant that has been altered by botanists to produce the most food/be the best quality.
And actually the chance to reproduce a recessive gene is 25% or 1/4 (not
calculating in some genes that only come bound together with other genes).
The point of the experiment to make more trees like this one is to mate it with hundreds of other trees in order to determine if the tree's gene is simply recessive or a genetic mutation.
Probably because the alteration didn't effect it nutritionally. Only those are tagged. Also, I said depending on the characteristics of the gene, which I was implying, recessive/dominant and other factors. If it was recessive, I don't see it showing up until the F2 generation.
And? Doesn't mean that someone else wouldn't. It's like buying clothes for 10x of their price for the designer tag.
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Coconut tree for a million dollars! 
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