Did you know humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas?
Essentially, they took all of the banana genes and compared them one at a time to human genes. From that, they culled a degree of similarity (if the banana had the gene but the human didn’t, that didn’t get counted). About 60 percent of our genes have a recognizable counterpart in the banana genome! It just means what it means. If they say you share 50% of our genes with a banana (highly unlikely, but we’ll roll with it) or 95-98% of your genes with chimps it means genetically we are that similar.
What does Islam say about bananas?
Banana. The banana is also considered a fruit of paradise, and although today it is seen as a common fruit, it holds numerous health benefits that can help maintain a balanced body. Botanically speaking the banana is the largest herb (the ‘tree’ is actually a ‘pseudostem’) and the part we eat is technically a berry. Weird right? It gets weirder, they’re also clones. Since they were first domesticated by humans 10,000 years ago, bananas have been grown and enjoyed in many places around the world.
What killed off the original bananas?
These fungal parasites slowly starve the banana to death. Black Sigatoka causes fruit losses of up to 50%, and Panama disease is responsible for wiping out the Gros Michel, the banana formerly eaten by your grandparents and now extinct. In the first half of the 20th century, our parents and grandparents ate a delicious banana called Gros Michel, or Big Mike in colloquial terms. But in the 1950s a deadly strain of the fungus causing Fusarium Wilt (Panama disease) wiped out almost all banana plantations in Central and South America.