Why doesn't the Apple Rot?

Subject: Why doesn't the Apple Rot?

Date: Thu Feb 19 16:12:00 1998
Posted by Maritess Oandasan
Grade level: 10-12
School: Granite Bay High School
City: Granite Bay State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 887926320.Gb

Message:


My instructor put an apple and a bologna sandwich in the same 
plastic baggy at the same time in september.  The sandwich is GONE! ! 
The Apple is just now (February) beginning to rot (grow fungus).  Why 
did it take so long compared to the sandwich?

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