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Does granny smith apples,red delicious apples and macintosh apples have the same amount of seeds?

Hi,

The number of seeds in an apple may vary between trees and between fruit depending on a number of factors. I do not think you can answer the question you asked definitively. See the resources below:

http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/fruit/apple.html ( see question 2)

http://www.geocities.com/perfectapple/science.html

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/apples/facts.html

http://madsci.org/posts/archives/2002-0 ... .Bt.r.html

Best wishes,.

Barrett Tomlinson

Hi plarita,

This is an easy enough experiment to do! You could purchase 20 of each type of apple, and count the number of seeds in each.

Good luck with your project!
Heather