Malus

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/malus

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name?Malus
2. What is the family?Rosaceae, subtribe Pyrinae
3. Where did the apple tree first grow?The first apple trees grew in Central Asia, especially in places like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. That area is where the wild apple that became the modern apple began.
4. How did we get the many kinds of apples we eat?People chose wild apple trees that had big, sweet fruit and grafted them together. This helped create many apple varieties for cooking, storing, and fighting disease.

Genus: A taxonomic rank in biological classification, grouping one or more related species.
Deciduous: Plants that shed their leaves seasonally, typically in autumn, as an adaptation to cold or dry periods.
Pome: A fleshy, accessory fruit produced by flowering plants in the subtribe Pyrinae of the family Rosaceae, such as apples and pears.
Vegetative Propagation: A form of asexual reproduction in plants, where new plants grow from vegetative parts like cuttings or grafts, preserving genetic traits.