Feb 04 2009
What are Phloem Bundles?
Phloem (pronounced “flom”) bundles have become a hot topic on Google trends recently due to their mention on the quiz show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
So what are phloem bundles? They are the strings on a banana and are part of the system that carries nutrition to all parts of the banana.
For those who want more details on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” – it is a TV game show that offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering 15 (or in some countries, 12) consecutive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by the Japanese production company Sony Pictures Television International.
The American version offers 1 million dollars as its maximum cash prize while the maximum cash prize in the original British version is one million pounds. Most international versions offer a top prize of one million units of the local currency, though the actual value of the prize varies widely, depending on the currency’s exchange rate. In the United States the top cash prizes have been changed to annuities.
Now my only question for you is – does anyone know what that millionaire question was that involved the phloem bundle, exactly?
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In which of the following would you most likely find a phloem bundle?
And the answers provided were:
A. Car engine
B. Brain Stem
C. Banana skin
D. Oyster Shell