What is vegetative propagation? Why vegetative propagation is also considered as a type of asexual
reproduction?
Answers
Answer:
Vegetative reproduction is considered as a type of asexual reproduction because here also characters of parent plants are preserved. ... Moreover the formation of new individuals does not involve two parents, process involved is asexual.
Answer:
Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction that produces progeny by any vegetative propagule without gamete formation and fertilization of male and female gametes. For example, Tuber of potato, the rhizome of ginger.
Explanation:
Vegetative reproduction, any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure (such as a stolon, rhizome, tuber, corm, or bulb).
Advantages of vegetative propagation
- Quicker and more certain.
- Produces identical quality as the parent.
- Plants that do not have viable seed, can be reproduced.
- Flowers produced are of superior quality.
- Desirable character of fruit can be maintained.
Vegetative reproduction is considered as a type of asexual reproduction because here also characters of parent plants are preserved. ... Moreover the formation of new individuals does not involve two parents, process involved is asexual.