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For starters, nearly all commercial banana plants are perfect clones of one another and most originate from one single plant from Southeast Asia. Now to be clear, there are approximately 1000 different types of banana plants in the world today and within each variety most are generally clones of one another, although some do have a bit of genetic diversification. But “the” banana, since the 1960s, the one sold commercially in supermarkets the world over, is the Cavendish banana, named after William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire.
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/commercial-banana-plants-are-perfect-clones-of-one-another/
Resources/Further Reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_balbisiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_%28genus%29
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-saved
http://biology.suite101.com/article.cfm/are_bananas_going_extinct
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1846/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cavendish,_6th_Duke_of_Devonshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
http://www.healthalternatives2000.com/fruit-nutrition-chart.html
Image Credit (Thank you)
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5026/5671051672_37d512c33e_o.jpg
http://africagreenmedia.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Banana.jpg
http://media.padil.gov.au/species/136609/6010-large.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Delicious_berry_pie,_January_2010.jpg
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