Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not?
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So fun fact, they did just discover a variety of seedless apples very recently. Not sure if they are marketable, but it’s a “thing”.
The difference here is some fruit can do something called “parthenocarpy”, it basically means the plant will produce flowers that *aren’t* fertilized and will still grow into fruit. The resulting fruit, since it wasn’t fertilized, will lack the reproductive seeds.
It turns out some plants do this and those are our seedless fruits mostly.
Some plants, like apple trees, *don’t* do this, so we don’t get seedless apples.
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