2006-11-27 10:35:14 · 9 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
I reckon, the banana is the seed of its tree, much like the coconut is to its tree.
2006-11-27 10:40:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In some types of banana, you can see very tiny seeds right in the center of the fruit. But many of the bananas you get at the grocery store are purposefully made to be seedless. Specialty stores sell banana seeds so you can grow your own plants. Banana plantations grow new plants by taking a fleshy bulb called a rhizome or a sucker off an old plant, and then planting the rhizome. I hope that clears everything up about this appealing fruit!
2006-11-27 18:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by life 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Although the wild species have fruits with numerous large, hard seeds, virtually all culinary bananas have seedless fruits.
Cultivated bananas are parthenocarpic, which makes them sterile and unable to produce viable seeds. Lacking seeds, another form of propagation is required. This involves removing and transplanting part of the underground stem (called a corm). Usually this is done by carefully removing a sucker (a vertical shoot that develops from the base of the banana pseudostem) with some roots intact.
2006-11-27 18:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bananas either lack seeds or have very small ones. The reason being, for bananas and many seedless fruits, is they are odd numbered polyploids. That means that they have an odd number of chromosome sets. When the banana begins to produce gametes (precursors to seeds) the chromosomes must be separated, in sexually reproducing organisms, the number of chromosomes is usually halved by meiosis (causing a 2n organism to have 1n gametes) but in the case of odd numbered polyploids like most seedless fruits, there aren't the right numbers of chromosomes for even separation and viable gametes do not form.
2006-11-27 20:45:45 · answer #4 · answered by Ian V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bananas have very tiny seeds in the fruit
2006-11-28 01:23:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The seeds are inside the banana. Those little black seeds are in the middle of the banana.
2006-11-27 18:45:02 · answer #6 · answered by no nickname 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe there are no seeds in a banana.
2006-11-27 18:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by PRINCESS Tiffany 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are no seeds on a banana; they are all inside.
2006-11-27 20:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by ramshi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
virtually all culinary bananas have seedless fruits
2006-11-27 18:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by James Chan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋