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by ajross 4574 days ago
I guess that gets to the semantics of what a "banana" is. You can't breed the plant that produces the fruit we buy in stores. Clearly there are ancestors that could reproduce. Yes, it might be possible to recover most of the traits of a commercial banana by breeding them. But it's never been done, so I don't see where the "This is incorrect" bit comes from.