Is a avacado a fruit or a vegetable??!


Question: if a fruit what about a bannana does dat have a seed??


Answers: if a fruit what about a bannana does dat have a seed??

It's a fruit. The fruit is sometimes called an avocado pear or alligator pear, due to its shape and rough green skin.
There are close to 1,000 species of banana today. Most of them are inedible - they carry hard pea-sized seeds, and have only a small amount of bad-tasting flesh. The botanists think that about 10,000 years ago, probably in South-East Asia, a random mutation produced a sterile banana with no seeds and lots of flesh that could be eaten uncooked. The internal dark lines and spots inside today's banana are the vestigial remnant of these seeds.
The edible farmed banana has no seeds. So how do we get new bananas? They take cuttings from an existing banana plant.
New banana "trees" are "born" in a new location when the shoots of cuttings are planted in the ground, and take root successfully.
The cycle starts with an underground stem (or vigorous root), often metres across, that can have several banana "trees" growing from it. Each of these so-called "trees" started from an underground "bud".
A "bud" will push up a shoot, which breaks through the soil. The shoot is made of leaves, wrapped tightly around each other, so that it looks like a green tree trunk - even though there is no wood present. The oldest leaves are on the outside, with the newest leaves pushing upward through the middle.
When the time is right, the underground stem switches from making leaves, to making an "inflorescence", which makes flowers, and subsequently, fruit. The inflorescence has a broad leaf-like structure that wraps around a hand of flowers, which ultimately turn into a hand of bananas. The final "tree" can be up to 6 metres tall, with bunches of 50-150 individual fruits or "fingers" of bananas, broken up into hands of 10-20 bananas each.
Once that particular underground bud has grown an inflorescence, it cannot reset itself to growing leaves, and ultimately, another "trunk". It has done its dash. So that bud and trunk will die and wither away. But in the next summer, other buds appear on the underground stem, and so the cycle continues.
So bananas are definitely a fruit, even though the fruit is sterile and has no seeds.

It has a big seed, is a fruit.

both avocado and banana are fruits.

fruit!!!

It is a fruit, and yes banana has seed, just really small and black.

fruit

Believe it or not, it's a FRUIT.
Yes, Bannanas have seeds in the funny black thing on the end of the fruit that you always throw away.

yes both are fruit and both have seed

It is a fruit

Both are fruit with seeds ,the avocado seed can be used to propagate a new plant,while the tiny black specks embedded in the banana flesh are seeds,these do five rise ti new plants,the banana plant is raised from the root sucker of the parent plant

(1) AVOCADO: a fruit
An avocado is a fruit, and a very interesting one at that. It evolved long ago in the Americas, to be eaten by very large animals which are now extinct. The seeds were swallowed by those large mammals, and they passed through undigested and were eventually deposited in a nice warm pile of ... uh ... fertilizer, ready to start growing the next generation of plants. You can read more about this fascinating story in the book "Ghosts of Evolution."

(2) BANANA: a fruit
Bananas in their original wild form were very different from the sweet seedless cloned bananas we eat today. Almost all bananas today are clones of the same variety, which makes them very vulnerable to a disease or pest which could literally wipe out the world's entire banana crop. That happened once before, in the 1950s, and today's bananas are a different variety than those of that time. There is concern that the same thing is happening again, and some researchers are working on growing new varieties (actually older varieties) that could be used if necessary.





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