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If they stop using them to demonstrate how condoms work maybe those bananas can start gettin' busy  ;D
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LMAO! :D ;D ;)

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Thank goodness plant cloning isn't as tricky as human cloning ;)
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Is it... ethical ??? :) :D ;D

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Is it... ethical ??? :) :D ;D
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No, I think the fundamental Plantarians are going to protest about it ::)

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No, I think the fundamental Plantarians are going to protest about it ::)
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Well, so far, they've won on the corn-chip front :P

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Bananas are definitely nature's perfect snack. :D

They will not become extinct. We have people out there right now who's job is to make sure nothing in this world ever becomes extinct again...ever.  ;D
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Now now, Hairspray, you know as well as I do that extinction is part of the natural course of things ;)  However, being that bananas are a genetically enhanced super-snack, this would be an exception.  But if squirrels are too stupid to look both ways before walking in front of my car going at 70 mph, that's not my problem ::)

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Not anymore.  :o ;D

Haven't you been keeping-up with "Science Weekly"?  ;) ;D ;)

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Not anymore.  :o ;D

Haven't you been keeping-up with "Science Weekly"?  ;) ;D ;)
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Do tell, do tell...this has piqued my interest.

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Ok. ok. Let's just say that with all the preservation societies out there, scientists, cloning experimentation, et., etc....

We virtually have nothing to worry about.  :)

That's all I can say for now...  ;) Shhhh...

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Ok. ok. Let's just say that with all the preservation societies out there, scientists, cloning experimentation, et., etc....

We virtually have nothing to worry about.  :)
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Well, I guess meddling humans could technically be considered part of nature ::)

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By George.... I think he's got it.  ::) ;D ;)

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By George.... I think he's got it.  ::) ;D ;)
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Bah, meddling humans don't count :D

Lots of things go extinct every year, you just don't hear about it unless it's some cute mammal.

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Oh my God nooooo! 'nana was one of my kids' first words. One of my boys pretends to go shopping for bananas. If bananas disapeer you can all visit me in my padded cell. :-/
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My first word was banana too, but in Chinese with English subtitles ;)

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Oh, shoot! Ha, ha, ha!  http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/lachen/lachen014.gif I'm gonna have to hire you for my next party.  ;)

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I thought those tiny brown/black things in the center of a banana were the seeds.
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They are. It's a berry. But those "seeds" are useless in the production of the banana tree. They reproduce asexually, so it means they are identical to the parent plant. There's no genetic mingling of two parent plants, so there isn't variation and selection as there is with sexual reproduction (condoms on a banana are overkill!). The plant grows from a stem called a rhizome (sp?), which grows into a trunk thingy from where flowers appear (magically!), and these become fruits. The plants subsequently die and more grow from this neat little stem system. I actually had to consult my old botany book 'cause all my Ouija board said was "M - A - G - I - C - K."

The book I got this info from is the second ed. of Botany by Randy Moore, W. Dennis Clark, and Darrell S. Vodopich, which also comes with a lab manual explaining this junk in further detail...