AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The vegetative parts of the plant includes stem, root, and leaves. These parts gets detached from the parent body to grow into an independent daughter plant. But, flower is the reproductive organ of a plant. Plants reproduce sexually through the male and female gametes present in the flowers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vegetative propagation does not need seeds or spores. Instead, offspring grow from a part of the parent plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -When vegetative parts of a plant are used as a mode of reproduction, it is known as vegetative propagation. In reproducing by using leaves, a leaf from a parent plant is propagated, and a new plantlet is produced on the parent plant. Example-leaves of Bryophyllum, peperomia, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -The male part is called androecium and the female part is called gynoecium. Q. The roots, stems and leaves constitute the reproductive parts of a plant.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: Begonia and Bryophyllum are examples of vegetative propagation by leaves. This is a form of asexual reproduction in which new plants grow from the buds growing on the margin of the leaves. These buds are reproductive in nature and when they fall on the ground they germinate and form a new plant.