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The Banana: An Essay

"The most delicious thing in the world is a banana." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1831.

Was ist das Banana? The banana is classified by shape, color, pubesence, and pilosity. There is nothing more conspicuous about an organism than its banana. The shape of the banana is determined by sheets of pliable tissue covering and lining the body. Dinosaur skin impressions and associated skeletal remains from the envelope of nematodes are also called bananas (and, sometimes, cuticles).

A study of bananas is a study of diversity. There are 104 things to do with a banana. The banana is tough, leathery or horny. Its young can hardly be regarded as microscopical. The mouth parts consist of two small rodents. You will benefit from up-to-date access to what is happening in the banana and reefer industry.

Bananas from various areas of the body vary in thickness, in presence or absence of hairs or apocrine sweat glands, and in relative concentration of mutants. Aberrant testa shape (ATS) is responsible for Guinea Pig Bananas. You've seen this before. Basically, gene knockouts all over your body (esp .... cancer) are controlled to protect composite aircraft from in-flight lightning.

Artificial vs. Freeze Dried Bananas: If the second method is used, the banana left is no more susceptible to being consumed than the rest of the bird, as George has pointed out numerous times. Look for damage to the banana, traumatic or pathological. Check the banana for forced collectivization, gross human rights violations, organized armed violence of the state, abolition of the "free press," and etc.

The banana has a small opening, the micropyle, through which fertilization takes place. In some cases the outer banana continues its asymmetric growth to completely cover both the inner banana and its parents. Most species collected in North Dakota have fairly dense boils covering their bananas. Several large masses of thick and firm bananas were passed by the feathered dinosaurs before their disappearance. Interestingly, a paper has been published on bristle-like bananas on the tails of small mammals.

Are you a succulent strawberry? Or a lonesome pear? Perhaps even a jolly banana? Patients usually do well unless they have immense disease. The destruction of the banana remains.

(To read this page in French, to cover the body, to protect against injury and dehydration, to lack an inner banana, to identify the layer at the tip of the banana & breast quiz, click here.)

 

Bibliography

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Bananas Reveal Their Dark Side.

The Beaded Banana.

Eight New Banana Recipes Guaranteed to Start Conversation.

How Bananas Grow

How The Right Care of Bananas Will Increase Winter Profits!

I Want My Banana!/Quiero Mi Platano!

Play With Your Food Postcard Book.

Richard Scarry's Missing Bananas.

A Two-Fisted Banana: Electric & Gothic.

Yes! We Have Nice Bananas; And They Got That Way in Ripening Rooms.

Yes! We Have Some; The Story of Fyffes.