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Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how we

get seedless fruit. Then you'll find out how to tap into the four pillars of learning to better absorb new information, with help from cognitive neuroscientist Stanislaus to Han.

But satisfy some curiosity.

What's the deal with seedless fruit?

I mean, plants make fruit to spread seeds.

If they don't have seeds, how do we make more of them?

The answer?

By making use of something plants do already.

It may surprise you to learn that plants can produce seedless fruit all on their own.

The kind you buy in the store hasn't been made seedless through any genetic modification.

When a plant produces fruit without seeds in it, scientists call that

Parthocarpy. Because many people seem to like seedless fruit because it's

easier to eat, farmers and scientists have spent a long time

learning how to reliably trigger Parthnicarpy. One way they do that is by keeping the plant from

being pollinated. See, fruit starts as a flower,

which usually needs to be fertilized by pollen from a fellow plant

in order to produce a fruit.

Flowers can fertilize themselves with their own pollen,

but many plants have genes that prevent that.

Mixing DNA with other individuals helps preserve genetic diversity and keep the species healthy, after all.

If these plants do self-pollinate, the fruit will grow, but these genes will act as a

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