Million to one apple. Million to one

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Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle.

The fruit's striking colouring is thought to be caused by a random genetic mutation at odds of more than a million to one.

The apple has caused such a stir in the village of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, that Mr Morrish is inundated with neighbours queuing up to take pictures of it.

Mr Morrish, 72, who has been harvesting the apples from trees in his garden for 45 years, said: "It's truly amazing.

"It looks as if a green apple and a red apple has been cut in half and stuck together."

He said that he was out picking a few apples for his sister-in-law when he spotted the fruit hanging from a bough.

Mr Morrish, a retired painter and decorator, added: "I couldn't believe my eyes. The red and green split through the stem is totally perfect – as if I've painted it.

"It's a genuine one-off and none of us have ever seen an apple like it before."

Experts believe that the odds of finding an apple with such a perfect line between the green and the red are more than a million to one.
In such cases, the red side usually tastes sweeter than the green side – because it has seen more sunshine during its growth.

John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, told the Daily Mail: "I've never seen this happen before to a golden delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.

"There has been the occasional case of this type reported. If there was a whole branch of apples with the same colouring then fruit experts would get even more excited."

Jim Arbury, fruit superintendent at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, said it was probably the "result of a random genetic mutation".

"This is known as a chimera where one of the first two cells has developed differently giving rise to one half of the apple being different," he said.

"It is unlikely to be a stable mutation but it is worth checking next year to see if it recurs. There are instances of some striped apples and pears where the mutation remains stable including one striped pear in the collection at Wisley called Pysanka."
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Looks awesome. Reminds me of an OS for some reason.
 
How many apples grow in a big orchard?

It seems like every other farm would have one of these at least once in their existence or something if the chances are only 1 in a million.
 
Wasn't sure what to expect when I entered, but I have to say that this is a million times more awesome than anything I could have imagined.
 
million to one? Surely more than several millions of Apple ship around the world per day. This should be pretty common.
 
Gaborn said:
John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, told the Daily Mail: "I've never seen this happen before to a golden delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.

Jim Arbury, fruit superintendent at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, said it was probably the "result of a random genetic mutation".
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I'm more surprised they were able to find this many "fruit professionals".
 
GodofWine said:
Someone must be able to replicate this...I refuse to eat non-chimera apples now.
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I just pictured Batman at the local grocery store, pushing a cart with his nose in the air as he passes the apple section of the produce department. :lol
 
mrkgoo said:
million to one? Surely more than several millions of Apple ship around the world per day. This should be pretty common.
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It said more than a million to one, which could range anywhere between a million and one to one all the way out to infinity plus one to one.
 
This guy should get together with the guy who had the 130 gram egg recently.

Put the egg into a pie crust, and use the apple in the filling. Rare pie.
 
RubxQub said:
How many apples grow in a big orchard?

It seems like every other farm would have one of these at least once in their existence or something if the chances are only 1 in a million.
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1 in a million chance per apple, not that in a million apples grown 1 will have this mutation.
 
"This is known as a chimera where one of the first two cells has developed differently giving rise to one half of the apple being different," he said.
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This actually occurs (very rarely) in humans too. There are people who have two different sets of DNA in them. It is like fused twins that grew as one person.
 
-PXG- said:
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!!!!
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:lol

I hope its one of those 'sandy' (arenosas) apples. nom nom nom nom
 
I had an apple like that today! It wasn't totally 50/50, more like a solid quarter of it was green and the rest red. I threw it away because I thought it was deformed.
 
speculawyer said:
This actually occurs (very rarely) in humans too. There are people who have two different sets of DNA in them. It is like fused twins that grew as one person.
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some woman had her kids taken for her when their dna didn't match hers. Social services thought she'd kidnapped them. Turns out she was a chimera. I saw a tv programme on it.
 
thesoapster said:
1 in a million chance per apple, not that in a million apples grown 1 will have this mutation.
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Er...?
 
Taichu said:
I had an apple like that today! It wasn't totally 50/50, more like a solid quarter of it was green and the rest red. I threw it away because I thought it was deformed.
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You just threw away your only chance of achieving immortality. And a bigger wang.
 
platypotamus said:
A coin has a 1 in 2 chance of being heads.

If you flip it twice, you may not get exactly one head.
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Er...? Come on now...

You guys aren't serious, are you? Sure, if you flip a coin 10 times, it's certainly possible that they could all come up heads. The more times you do this however, the closer to 50/50 the ratio will become. Over a large data set, you'd expect the outcome to be near 50/50.

Just as some farms would have none, other farms would have 2...or 5...or 10.

...why are we arguing basic statistics? :lol
 
RubxQub said:
Er...? Come on now...

You guys aren't serious, are you? Sure, if you flip a coin 10 times, it's certainly possible that they could all come up heads. The more times you do this however, the closer to 50/50 the ratio will become. Over a large data set, you'd expect the outcome to be near 50/50.

Just as some farms would have none, other farms would have 2...or 5...or 10.

...why are we arguing basic statistics? :lol
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What this is an example of is the Gambler's Fallacy

The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process then these deviations are likely to be evened out by opposite deviations in the future. For example, if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails comes up a larger number of times than is expected, a gambler may incorrectly believe that this means that heads is more likely in future tosses.[1] Such an expectation could be mistakenly referred to as being "due". This is an informal fallacy.
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Each individual apple in an orchard might have a million to one chance (or whatever the actual odds are) of this specific mutation, but it doesn't get more likely over a larger number of apples because each apple is itself an individual opportunity and doesn't affect other apples.
 
Gaborn said:
What this is an example of is the Gambler's Fallacy



Each individual apple in an orchard might have a million to one chance (or whatever the actual odds are) of this specific mutation, but it doesn't get more likely over a larger number of apples because each apple is itself an individual opportunity and doesn't affect other apples.
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I was about to post this. :D
 
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