Hello! Today I found this orange at the market and was really curious for why it's peel is divided approximately in half. The inside looks normal, maybe a little shinier on the yellowish part, and the taste is also normal. What could have happened here?
by No_Attempt_8499
3 Comments
Sectoral mutation.
Can happen at different points of development, and affect different tissue layers.
Somatic mutation in one of the cells which was the ancestor of that half of the orange. Likely a transposable element transposed.
It has gone through a Civil War 🫡😂