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If Cavendish bananas are sterile and at risk of extinction because they're triploid, yet there are drugs (like colchicine) that induce polyploidy in plants, why can't we just use those drugs to create tetraploid or hexaploid Cavendish bananas that can reproduce?

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For elements whose electrons travel at relativistic speeds, what happens to the electrons when we accelerate an atom of that element to relativistic speeds?

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If Cavendish bananas are sterile and at risk of extinction because they're triploid, yet there are drugs (like colchicine) that induce polyploidy in plants, why can't we just use those drugs to create tetraploid or hexaploid Cavendish bananas that can reproduce?	1
For elements whose electrons travel at relativistic speeds, what happens to the electrons when we accelerate an atom of that element to relativistic speeds?	1