If an apple tree fertilizes another tree of the exact same kind, why will the seed of one tree produce different tasting apples?
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Funny that you used apples as your example! It is actually very difficult to get good tasting apples through natural fertilisation, as every tree will have different tasting apples, the only way to get consistently good apple trees is through grafting.
So yes, even if you plant the seeds of a single apple, every plant will have different apples, genetics are weird and random. If a pair of identical twins would have children with another pair of identical twins, their children would not be the same.
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