Question

A farmer cut a branch from his favorite, mature fruit tree, planted it in the soil, and it grew to be a new tree. The farmer's method of growing a new plant is a type of

A) pollination.
B) seed production.
C) sexual reproduction.
D) asexual reproduction

Answer 1

Producing a new plant from the somatic, or body cells of an adult plant is a form of asexual reproduction . In this case, the farmer took a cutting in order to grow a new tree by asexual reproduction.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) asexual reproduction

Growing new plants from stem cut is a method of asexual reproduction or better it is regarded as vegetative propagation. When vegetative parts such as root, stem or leaf is used to grow new plants is known as vegetative propagation. This type of propagation does not involves fusion of gametes. Asexual reproduction or vegetative propagation is rapid method to grow new similar plants.