How does the banana,kiwi and pinapple reproduce itself ?

Question

A single banana has no seeds on it. Bananas are Asexual right ? After eating the banana. There's nothing left but the peel. Where is it's genetic information stored ? The Kiwi and the Pineapple too ? An Apple, a pear and a melon has a seed

Answer 1

Some of the answerers are confusing asexual reproduction and vegetative propagation ... some seed-bearing plants (like apples) are vegetatively propagated to maintain their characteristics (which will not be maintained in a plant grown from seed).

Kiwifruits have small seeds ... the small black spots are actually seeds (kiwis plants *are* male and female as someone else noted). The small black spots in bananas are NOT seeds but aborted ovules ... commercial bananas do reproduce asexually because they are triploid (3 sets of chromosomes instead of the usual 2) and cannot produce seeds. Wild bananas *do* produce seeds ... they are quite large, round and hard ... and usually so numerous that there isn't much flesh to eat. Pineapples are propagated vegetatively ... wild forms are quite capable of producing seed but cultivated ones are self-incompatible and grown in plantation with plants of the same clone.

Answer 2

Although bananas are angiosperms, the variety we eat can't reproduce by flowering. Instead, they are propogated asexually by rhizome offshoots (similar to strawberry propagation).

Pineapples are similar to bananas in the propogation department. Although they are also capable of producing seeds, commercial planting uses suckers, slips, or even the crowns at the top of the fruits.

Kiwifruit is unique in that the individual plants are either male or female...only female plants bear fruit, and only when pollenized. Usually one male tree can fertilize 3 to 8 female vines, with the exception of the Issai cultivar, which is self pollinating.

Answer 3

bananas grow from creeping rootstalks called rhizomes. One plant shoots a stalk underground and it emerges into another tree. Oh and bananas are actually a berry! But you can read all about male and female plant components below. Oh and ginger is a rhizome too. Pineapples, if you cut the crown off it, that the green leafy crest on its top, and plant that, another pineapple will emerge from it. pineapples grow from suckers or slips. the stem or the top. Both if planted will produce a pineapple. kiwi's are a vine or climbing shrub and the fruit does contain the seed.

Answer 4

A veggie is a plant or part of a flower used as food

Answer 5

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. Thus as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.

Answer 6

banana's have seeds, look in the center of a slice carefully you will see black specs, those are seeds. when a person or animal eats the banana and craps thereafter, the seeds are in the crap. the black stuff in a kiwi are seeds too, and believe me nature isnt doing magic - pineapples have seeds too.

Answer 7

can a kiwi reproduce with a bannana since they both have seeds. What if you put them open face to face in the ground and buried them. Saw this on facebook and do not believe.

Answer 8

Many plants are asexually reproduced, even apples, even though they have a seed.

Answer 9

I was hoping someone had the answer for this because I would like to know myself.