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seedless is seedless. cultivated bananas are sterile females due to genetics, triploidy, and chromosomal structural changes all depending on the clone in question. female sterility is the main reason for seedlessness in the Cavendish cultivars, whereas, Gros Michel produces no pollen (sterile male flowers) due to its triploidy but if grown near another pollen source may put out one or two seeds per bunch. cultivated bananas are parthenocarpic, they develop edible pulp without pollination, while in wild bananas pollination is required for fruit development and will produce no fruit if the plant is shielded from pollination. over the years i have seen many labs/farms attempt to produce seed in Cavendish cultivars and it has never happened, so in Cavendish there doesn't exist a seed of the seedless.

while seeds do give rise to genetic variation evolution doesn't necessary require seeds, pups can be genetic sports that are superior to the mother plant, many superior moss mutations have occurred due to increases in UV light levels giving rise to superior colonies that end up taking over the colony.