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===About Cultivation===
Most of the [[Fruit|fruit]] and [[Vegetable|vegetables]] we eat today don't look like they did 10,000 years ago. They have been ''''cultivated'''. [[Human|Humans]] have [[Selective Breeding|bred]] them by always planting the [[Seed|seeds]] from the biggest and the sweetest [[Plant|plants]]. Over thousands of years this means the new [[Plant|plants]] have got bigger and sweeter with every new generation.
Sometimes [[Plant|plants]] are '''cultivated''' because the look pretty. Many gardens have [[Plant|plants]] that we can't eat, but people like the look of them so they plant and grow them careful.
===Examples===
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|[[style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Rice]] is a type of grass that was first '''cultivated''' in Asia thousands of years ago.| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |The [[tomato]] was first cultivated in South America and was a small yellow [[fruit]] before people brought it to [[Europe]] to '''cultivate''' it into the big red [[fruit]] we know today.| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Before '''cultivation''', [[Apple|apples]] were as small as [[Cherry|cherries]] and only found in [[Kazakhstan]].
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