Mystery Science: Power of Flowers Mystery 3 & 4

How are grocery store apples different than wild apples (crab apples)?

• They are smaller than wild apples

• They are much bigger than wild apples

• They are the same as wild apples

How have humans made sweeter apples?

• They put extra sugar in the apples.

• They planted sugar trees.

• They selected seeds from sweet apples.

• They selected seeds from sour apples.

Why do you think it took plant growers so long to create the roses we have today in flower shops?

• They kept selecting flowers with more and more petals.

• They kept selecting flowers with sweeter smells.

• They kept selecting flowers with the most thorns.

• They stopped growing roses for several years.

No two babies of a parent have exactly the same traits.

• True

• False

If I wanted to grow a giant pumpkin, I would.....

• choose seeds from the smallest pumpkin

• choose seeds from a medium sized pumpkin

• choose seeds from the largest pumpkin

How can you tell whether two fruits are just varieties of one kind of fruit, or if they're completely different fruits? Choose all the correct choices.

• Look at the outside of each fruit.

• Look at the inside of each fruit

• Look at the leaves and flowers of the fruit.

• Taste each fruit and see if they taste the same.