If Fruits Have Seeds In Them Them What Are Seedless Fruits And Cultivated Fruits Considered?
A fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant
Where do cultivated & seedless fruits come in at
example bananas in the wild have seeds in them while most bananas sold are cultivated and dont have seeds
Are they still a fruit as well as other fruits that dont have seeds because of cultivation or genect modification.
The defintion of fruits having seeds would exclude those right ?
June 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Still a fruit; no seeds due to genetic modification.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
That is NOT the correct definition to start with. A fruit is a ripened ovary, period. Seeds come from ovules within the ovary. Whether a fruit has seeds or not does not change the fact that it is a fruit. Please be aware there is a lot of misinformation out there on the internet.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:08 am
That is an excellent question.
They would be considered a “cultivar” of the parent variety and identified as such. So you might have a “Big Yellow” banana, cultivar an the cultivar would have something “different” … in your example no seeds. It would remain a banana cultivar.
It is good to be curious and ask these questions.
BTW “Sandstorms_brother” has no clue what the hell he’s talking about.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:00 am
No, that does not exclude these. The Cavendish bananas sold commercially have undeveloped seeds, as do the so-called seedless watermelons. Those are the small dark specks near the center of the banana. There are very few bananas in the wild, unfortunately, which is leading to a rapid loss of genetic diversity. Many species of them have gone extinct in the last few decades.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Go ask your mother.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Fruits.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
A “seedless fruit”
June 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
ummm