I recently found out that bananas are man made. Does anyone know what a natural banana looks like?
I recently found out that bananas are man made. Does anyone know what a natural banana looks like?
I'm guessing they'd be like the tiny bananas I see at the tropical store. They're sweeter and quite pleasant to eat compared to the usual bananas.
I could be wrong (too lazy to google) but think there are a variety of completely natural bananas but the original banana of choice was so popular and overharvested that they actually became extinct (the banana on which "banana flavor" is based), and we now get a different variety (that may have been cultivated in a way other than its original form, I'm not sure, but not cooked up in a lab whole-cloth). I remember reading about this somewhere, but I read a lot of stuff and confirm a sadly small amount. Banana experts or people not too lazy to google please correct.
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Not something harvested into extinction, as overplanted to the point bananas became a monoculture. Then, a fungus showed up nearly wiped out the species. The current banana, the Cavendish, came about because it was resistant to the original fungus. It's believed that the song Yes, We Have No Bananas is about the fungus epidemic as they are close to each other in the timeline, but no one actually remembers (nor remembered to write down) if this is actually true.
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Given my allergy to bananas, even writing about them can make me feel ill, but I did do botany as one of my sciences in university. All plants have a wild variety from which they were cultivated. Some of those might have gone extinct but in the case of bananas there are still wild bananas in existence. Of course, they don't taste good. But botanists go looking for the wild source of the plant which can be used to reintroduce vigour and genetic diversity to the domesticated version of the plant.
For my botany course, I did my term paper on the search for corn's original source--which is still a matter of some debate. In my paper I discussed teosinte, which may have been cultivated by humans until it became corn (maize).
Most effective way to save an endangered animal is to make them pets or domesticated somehow. There are a lot of animals that are endangered these days. You know what animals aren’t endangered? Cows, dogs, cats and rats. In short any animal that can be adapted( either naturally or through the process of domestication) to a world where humans exist. That why I believe in responsible animal ownership.
But is an animal that is domesticated or only in captivity still that animal?
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This reminds me of an idiotic Creationist argument that the Banana proves Intelligent (i.e., God) design because the banana fits the human hand so well. Not checking that it was developed that way.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ray-c...ment_n_4847082
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!