Asexual Reproduction in Plants

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Asexual Reproduction in Plants: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Vegetative Propagation, Asexual Reproduction, Tissue Culture, Spore Formation, Callus, Budding in Yeast, Micropropagation, Tubers, Hyphae, Rhizomes, Sporangia and, Vegetative Propagation by Layering

Important Questions on Asexual Reproduction in Plants

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Define the term tissue culture.

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Define the term micropropagation.

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What are the advantages of conventional method of artificial propagation?

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Define artificial methods of vegetative propagation with examples.

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Describe the process of budding in yeast with suitable diagram.

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Yeast reproduces by binary fission.

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_____ is a undifferentiated mass of the cells formed from the division of explant in an artificial media, under controlled conditions.

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Which of the following plant can be grown through stems by the process of vegetative propagation.

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Explain how the root is used for vegetative propagation.

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Choose from the following that is a rhizome.

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Define rhizomes and provide some examples.

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Define stem tubers.

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Nodes are the points on a stem where the buds originate.

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How plants reproduce by stem cutting.

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The desirable characters of parents can be retained in offspring by

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Which of the following plants are grown by vegetative propagation?

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Identify the correct statements with respect to the modified underground stem.

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Absorption of nutrients in moulds is done by _____.