PLANTS
PLANT REPRODUCTION
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meiosis produces a new gametophyte.
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offspring are produced by mitosis alone.
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only root tissue can be used to produce new offspring.
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offspring will differ from the parent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In vegetative reproduction, the offspring are genetically identical new plants that formed from vegetative parts of parent plants. So, the term clone applies to the offspring formed by vegetative reproduction.
Detailed explanation-2: -vegetative reproduction, any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure (such as a stolon, rhizome, tuber, corm, or bulb).
Detailed explanation-3: -Food crops such as cassava, sweet potato, sugarcane, pineapple, banana, onion, etc. are propagated vegetatively. Plants produced in this way have characteristics identical to the parent plants; this is the main and most important advantage of vegetative propagation.
Detailed explanation-4: -It involves the propagation of plants through certain vegetative parts such as the rhizome, sucker, tuber, bulb, etc. It does not involve the fusion of the male and the female gamete and requires only one parent. Hence, vegetative reproduction is considered as a type of asexual reproduction.