Question

Maria is growing strawberries in her back yard. She notices that the plants are producing baby plants from horizontal stems that grow along the top of the garden soil. These strawberry plants are reproducing ______ and producing runners.

Answer 1

New clones plants (or baby strawberry plants) will develop at each nodes at varying intervals

Answer 2

Answer: Asexually

Explanation:

Strawberry plant are able to produce baby plants by growing runners from the original plant. They grow stolon also known as runners that attaches them self to the ground and form a new plant.

This mode of reproduction is known as asexual reproduction that has no genetic diversity.

Thus, this is how a new strawberry plant grows by the help of old plant.