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Banana - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | A banana is a tree -like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantain. |
 | | The term banana is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry), which grows (in edible species and varieties) in hanging clusters, several to many fruits to a tier (called a hand), many tiers to a bunch. |
 | | It is a little-known fact that the darkening of ripening bananas, proceeding from yellow, to brown, to fl, is mainly due to large amounts of serotonin (an important human neurotransmitter), which is produced from tryptophan in banana peels. |
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