Question

If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeeds in having a single plant with a particularly desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to establishing a line of such plants?

A) Backtrack through her previous experiments to obtain another plant with the same traits.
B) Breed this plant with another plant with much weaker traits.
C) Clone the plant.
D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C) Clone the plant

Step-by-step explanation:

Cloning is the process in which genetically similar or identical copies of an individual are produced. Cloning in plants is done for mass production of a plant that have all desirable characteristics because all the characters in cloned offspring are the same as of the parent.

Cloning is also useful because using cloning techniques plants can be grown quickly than from seedling. It does not allow the loss of any desirable trait. Even reproductively inactive plants can be grown by using cloning technique.

So to establish a line of such plants that have particular desired set of traits cloning the plant would be the most probable and efficient route.