Question

Farmer Brown grows corn for a living. One day, Farmer Green suggests to Farmer Brown that he should clone his best corn plant in order to produce more ears of corn per plant. Farmer Brown is not sure about Farmer Green's idea.

Why might Farmer Brown be hesitant to clone his corn?
A) Cloning the corn plants is difficult and expensive to accomplish.
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B) The cloned corn would not have the same taste as the original plants.
C) Cloning eliminates the ability to sexually reproduce and provide genetic variability.
D) Cloned plants would have increased genetic variability as well as a shortened life expectancy.

Answer 1

Artificial cloning is creating identical duplicates in a short period of time. Farmers use cloning these days to increase their production, however they are unaware of the disadvantages of the process. 

Farmer Green suggests Farmer Brown to clone his corn, but he is hesitant because:

(C) Cloning eliminates the ability to reproduce and provide genetic variability 

Due to lack of genetic variability, the plant is exposed to diseases and ends up affecting the production of corn as a whole. 

Answer 2

Why might Farmer Brown be hesitant to clone his corn?

A) Cloning the corn plants is difficult and expensive to accomplish.

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B) The cloned corn would not have the same taste as the original plants.

C) Cloning eliminates the ability to sexually reproduce and provide genetic variability.

D) Cloned plants would have increased genetic variability as well as a shortened life expectancy.

Answer Option C

Reason for the answer: Due to lack of variations in the specimen it may be subjected to attack by more diseases. So he doesn't prefer.