breeding question

[sack-of-spud]

can u breed an orange with a banana ?

[tamborine]

U tell me - you're the intelligensia

[sack-of-spud]

i dont quite know how

[tamborine]

thats that then

[Mr.Nose]

i often ask myself the very same question

mercutio

[wildwood]

Not really. They are too far removed from each other on the 'evolutionary tree' to be successfully cross-pollinated.

[sara3]

so no bananges then? what a disappointment.

[rov1200]

No, one is round and the other is crescent shaped. Its like attaching the moon to the Earth

[beso]

You could probably have genes from one of them inserted into the other by a genetic engineer. For example you could probably get an orange flavoured banana.

It does't much matter about the relatedness for this process. Some quite extradinary combinations have been done.

Daffodil yellow has been inserted into rice making a rice high in vitamin A.

A fish antifreeze has been put into tomatos to make them frost resistant. Unfortunately the tomatos tasted fishy so it didn't catch on.

A jellyfish gene has been inserted into mice, dogs and marmosets making glow in the dark animals.

[Whickerman]

I'd buy them...