Do you ever think where these products come from?

Monocot

Eudicot

Dicots are paraphyletic

http://tolweb.org/angiosperms

Shoot system Leaves Flowers Fruits

Root system

Sterile parts
Petal Sepal

Reproductive parts
Stamen (male)
Anther Filament

Carpel (female)
Stigma Style Ovary Ovules

Transport of food and water: Phloem:nutrients/sugar Xylem: water

Secondary growth in vascular cambium = thickness

Fruit = ovary + seeds (fertilized ovules) Can only develop by fusion of pollen (via pollen tube) and ovules
Wild banana---was inedible due to large, hard seeds. Originally bananas were cultivated for the roots which were turned into power and used in baking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlcyPlsc_8k

Americans consume more bananas than apples and oranges combined. Recently, bananas have been hit by two deadly fungal infections. Because all bananas are clones, they are susceptible to such epidemics.
(The banana you eat for breakfast has the same genes as the banana your parents ate for breakfast when they were your age).

The Cavendish banana

Listen to the NPR interview audio clip about the banana called Bananas, A Storied Fruit with an Uncertain Past. (40 min)
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19097412) A link is on Carmen under Content>Laboratory.

Read Chapter 28 from Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. It is found on Carmen under Content>Laboratory. You will use the resources above to answer the questions on your lab worksheet about bananas

Dan Koeppel. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. 2008. Hudson Street Press. Penguin Group, New York. ISBN 978-1-59463-038-5