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Can fruit DNA (like from an apple or orange) be traced back to the tree it came from?
gpt
Not with the fruit we eat, since most of it is cloned. For example every single banana you have ever eaten is genetically identical. Same goes for some other fruits too. In the best case you could probably trace a fruit to a region or a single orchard, but beyond that all the plants are propagated by cuttings (cloning) so you could never tell which exact plant it came from.