Name: Dispersal of Seeds
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Description: Exploding seeds! Flying seeds! Floating seeds! Got your attention and want to know more? This video will have answers to all your questions.

Question

Describe the different methods of asexual reproduction. Give examples.

Accepted Answer

The various modes of asexual reproduction in plants are as follows:

Vegetative propagation: The plants can produce new plants from vegetative parts of plants such as roots, stems, leaves and buds.

Vegetative propagation is divided into two types:

Natural vegetative propagation: It occurs easily in nature and involves simple vegetative parts. Example : Potato plant sprouting from its eye.

Artificial vegetative propagation: This type of vegetative propagation is performed manually and generally occurs in laboratory conditions. Example: The stem cutting of a rose plant develops into a complete plant.

Budding: Budding is a process by which a new individual form from a bulb-like projection called bud. It grows and gets detached from the parent to form a new individual. Example: Yeast

Fragmentation: It is a form of asexual reproduction where a new organism is formed from the fragments of the parent body. Example: Spirogyra

Spore formation: Spore formation is the mode of reproduction in many non-flowering plants such as ferns and moss. Spores are tiny cells protected by a thick wall to withstand unfavourable conditions such as high temperature and low humidity.

Column I	Column II
(a) Bud	(i) Maple
(b) Eyes	(ii) Spirogyra
(c) Fragmentation	(iii) Yeast
(d) Wings	(iv) Bread mould
(e) Spores	(v) Potato

Describe the different methods of asexual reproduction. Give examples.

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