Shyam Visweswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the >> end of the banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by >> americans is dying out because of the botanical equivalent of >> incest. > > I thought all bananas don't undergo sexual reproduction; all members > of a variety are clones.
That is indeed the case. The bananas we eat are triploid mutants incapable of sexual reproduction. The non-mutant bananas have huge seeds and are not very easy to eat. > I am trying to wrap my head around what incest may mean in a family > of clones. The image is not a pretty one. Perry
