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But I thought bananas were eggs :(
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It sounds like you have absolutely no idea what genetic engineering means.
Selective breeding is selecting two banana plants that have characteristics you want, moving pollen (or however it is that bananas reproduce) from one plant to another, and growing, and selecting the "best" plants from the offspring, to get the banana plants with the characteristics that you want.
Genetic modification is snipping part of the genetic material from an eggplant and inserting them into a banana seed(?)'s genes.
Yes?
Selective breeding to get plants with different characteristics inherently involves modifying the genes of the plant. Genes that lead to unwanted traits are bred out, and genes that lead to desirable traits are promoted.
A plant that undergoes this process has been genetically modified from its wild, undomesticated counterpart. It is a GMO (in its broadest definition).
Bananas are actually a really interesting plant and I recommend reading about the work being done even today to breed new disease resistant varieties, mostly involving mutation breeding (selective breeding with radiation to speed things along).