Question

what is totipotency and how does it help in plant propagation?

Answer 1

Totipotency is the ability of a living cell to express all of its genes to regenerate a whole new individual. Totipotent cells from plants have been used in tissue-culture techniques to produce improved plant materials that are pathogen-free and disease-resistant. Totipotent cells from animals are now being used to clone mammals, although ethical questions remain over whether cloning a human should be done.

Answer 2

ans: The ability of a single plant cell to divide and to regenerate the whole plant is called as totipotency.

The help in it plant propagation are:

(1) Crop improvement

(2) Micropropagation

(3) Genetic transformation

(4) Production of pathogen - free plants

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