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Subject: why do purple beans turn green when they are cooked? And how did they get t

Date: Sun Aug 24 09:09:24 2003
Posted by cathy
Grade level: 7-9 School: colfax high school
City: colfax State/Province: washington Country: usa
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 1061734164.Gb
Message:

We are going purple beans in our garden, and wondered how they got to be 
purple.  Was it through recessive genes or genetic engineering?  Then when we 
cooked them, I wondered about the chemical reaction that caused them to turn 
green?


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