GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
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Question
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Carefully collect bananas with the desired characteristics
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Eat the biggest bananas
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Collect all bananas and dry them
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Only select the diseased bananas and obtain their seeds
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Detailed explanation-1: -Previous archaeological and linguistic studies have indicated that cultivated banana was initially domesticated by farmers in Southeast Asia about 7, 000 years ago, and subsequently introduced into other regions of the world by transmigrants or travelers [1], [2], [3].
Detailed explanation-2: -Technique of hybridization in banana is different from other crops. Pollination is best carried out in the morning. The bunches of female parent are bagged at shooting and each successive hand is pollinated as it is exposed. At maturity and ripening the bunch is cut and seeds are extracted.
Detailed explanation-3: -From wild bananas to edible diploids Domestication for edibility most likely started with farmers transplanting the offshoots (suckers) of plants that were edible by virtue of having less seeds and more pulp. But since these plants were still fertile, they continued mating with other fertile banana plants.