Question

As part of observation in your scientific method, you discover that your strawberry plants are producing plantlets that are identical to the parent plant. this demonstrates that they reproduce by

Answer 1

As part of observation in your scientific method, you discover that your strawberry plants are producing plantlets that are identical to the parent plant. This demonstrates that the strawberry plants reproduce by the vegetative propagation. The vegetative propagation of plants is a asexual method of reproduction. The strawberry plant grows runners that develop into new plantlets with indentical genetic content to the parent plant.

Answer 2

Strawberry plants produce plantlets that are identical to the parent plant by a method of asexual reproduction called vegetative propagation through the production of stolons.

Vegetative propagation is a method of reproduction in which the parent plant produces identical offspring or plants. The plants, thus produced are genetically identical to each other and to the parent plant and are called clones.

Strawberry plants reproduce asexually through their stolons or the runners. A stolon is a horizontal plant stem with nodes at point along its length. At these regions of nodes, roots start growing into the soil followed by a shoot finally developing into a new plant. Many such genetically identical new plants are produced through the stolon of the parent plant in strawberry.