AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -One example of vegetative reproduction involving a plant’s stem is seen in strawberries. Strawberry plants produce horizontal stems above the ground from which roots and new plants can grow. Such stems or runners are called stolons.

Detailed explanation-2: -Strawberry plants reproduce through stolons or “runners.” Runners extend out several inches from the crown, take root in the soil, and produce new plants called “daughter plants.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Is a strawberry a vegetable? Vegetables are the edible leaves, stalks, and stems of plants-with the exception of parts that belongs to the plant’s reproductive system. Though the strawberry receptacle is part of the stem, it also holds the plant’s ovaries. So, strawberries are not vegetables.

Detailed explanation-4: -Strawberry plants can be propagated asexually by allowing plantlets on the ends of stolons ("runners") to grow in soil. But the actual strawberries are the result of sexual reproduction, as they grow from flowers.

Detailed explanation-5: -Did you know that plants can grow and reproduce without seeds or spores? Vegetative propagation is a process in which plants reproduce from stems, roots and leaves. It is a form of asexual reproduction seen in plants.