rosy2019
rosy2019
27.02.2020 • 
Biology

The common type of banana we buy and eat is a Cavendish banana. They arose from random mutant bananas that were produced sexually from Wild banana plants. The Cavendish banana is infertile and can only be produced by cloning from root shoots. Given that large commercial growers worldwide now plant only the mutant type resulting from the clones they produce, which of the following statements would be true relative to their reproduction?

A
This type of reproduction would require successful pollination.

B
Only asexual reproduction is used to produce new plants.

C
Both sexual and asexual reproduction occurs to produce new plants.

D
New gene combinations are possible from this type of reproduction.

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