NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In asexual reproduction new plants are obtained without production of seeds. It is a type of asexual reproduction in which new plants are produced from roots, stems, leaves and buds. Since reproduction is through the vegetative parts of the plant, it is known as vegetative propagation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vegetative propagation does not need seeds or spores. Instead, offspring grow from a part of the parent plant. In different plants, vegetative propagation happens in different ways.

Detailed explanation-3: -Natural vegetative propagation occurs when an axillary bud grows into a lateral shoot and develops its own roots (also known as adventitious roots). Plant structures allowing natural vegetative propagation include bulbs, rhizomes, stolons and tubers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plants that don’t make seeds are called non-seed plants. Ferns and mosses are non-seed plants. They don’t make seeds, but they make spores, and the new plant grow from this spore.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is true that vegetative propagation is a faster mechanism of reproduction as compared to sexual reproduction. This is because it doesn’t require waiting for the development of the sexual organs of the plant.