Okay, so one liiiiittle thing’s been bugging me a teeeensy bit. I’m not, like, a geneticist or anything, but where did all the genetic variation in the truffula trees at the end come from? I mean, there’s purple trees now!

There weren’t even any purple trees before! Unless they turn pinker when they get older or something?! But there was STILL ONLY ONE SEED and aLL THESE DIFFERENT COLORS NOW.

I just wanna know howWwWwWwWw?

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tags: #like maybe is this totally possible and i just don't know science?! #the lorax #truffula trees #original
  1. colonelchipmartin reblogged this from eriyu
  2. classicteacake reblogged this from eriyu and added:
    Actually, there were a few purple Truffula Trees. Check it out! It could be that both the one you saw and this one were...
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  5. french-fried-kas reblogged this from anna-aurion and added:
    I think there are flowers which color depends on the pH of the ground, so that’s possible, yeah…
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  8. eridan-ampoophead reblogged this from travelingmadness and added:
    It could be dominant and recessive alleles, but I don’t think that the purple ones turn pink when they get older. The...
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  10. eriyu reblogged this from travelingmadness and added:
    Well… but you’ve gotta assume that they reproduce asexually ‘cause there was only one to start out, and that would mean...
  11. little--jelly reblogged this from travelingmadness and added:
    I read somewhere that said purple truffula trees are extremely rare
  12. domserwildidiott reblogged this from travelingmadness and added:
    But it’s not the only one? There’s another one up near the top right corner…
  13. regalrandall reblogged this from travelingmadness and added:
    Maybe it’s because that one is in the shadow of the Lerkim?
  14. travelingmadness reblogged this from eriyu and added:
    What if it’s something with dominant and recessive traits?
  15. kili-fili-and-frilly reblogged this from fragile-little-tea-cup and added:
    Genetic mutation caused by pollution.
  16. fragile-little-tea-cup reblogged this from anna-aurion
  17. lovingmyfandoms reblogged this from anna-aurion
  18. anna-aurion reblogged this from eriyu and added:
    ………You know, I have no idea. Unless it’s some kind of mineral in the ground, that’s causing it, I have no clue.
  19. owlapin said: A MUTATION CAUSED BY THE LINGERING POLLUTION?
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