give the advantage and limitations of asexual reproduction
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Explanation:
The reactivity of Group 1 elements increases as you go down the group because: ... the outer electron gets further from the nucleus as you go down the group. the attraction between the nucleus and outer electron gets weaker as you go down the group - so the electron is more easily lost.
✳️Advantages of asexual propagation :
-Vegetatively propagated fruit plants are true-to-type, uniform in growth,yielding capacity and fruit quality.
-Vegetatively propagated fruit plants come into bearing earlier.
- Uniformity in fruit quality makes harvesting and marketing easy.
-Modifying influence of rootstock on scion can be profitably availed off.
-It is possible to regulate the tree size, fruitquality, precocity etc., accordingto one's requirements by using different rootstocks.
-Cross pollination can be effected by grafting shoots of other suitablevarieties (pollinizers) on some of the branches of self-unfruitful variety.
- Grafting can be used to encourage healing of tree wounds caused by rodents,implements, etc.
-Composite tree can be raised.
-One can correct (to some extent) the initial mistakes of planting inferior orunsuitable varieties.
- Fruit plants producing seedless fruits such as banana can only be multipliedthrough vegetative means.
✳️Limitations of asexual propagation :
- No new variety can be evolved by means of the vegetative method ofpropagation.
- It is more expensive than raising new plants through seeds.
-Vegetatively propagated plants arecomparatively short-lived.