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    I'm not saying that bananas are sex-linked, but hypothetically to answer the previous question about how to get female banana offspring from male banana breeders:

    If the banana trait was W-linked recessive, much like some human color blindness is X-linked recessive:

    ZW female bananas are essentially hets

    WW males are essentially homozygotes.

    Both are just 'banana' phenotype.

    banana male to a normal female, ALL the females would be bananas, as all would receive the banana trait from the male.

    The problem lies in producing banana males from a pairing that does not have a banana male.. which must have been done if people don't think that the trait is w-linked.

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