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3 mark question:The shoot tip of a plant can be used to grow a whole plant, through a processcalled micropropagation which is often used in scientific research.Using your knowledge of plant stem cells, explain how this process can generate whole plants.

3 mark question:The shoot tip of a plant can be used to grow a whole plant, through-example-1
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Micropropagation is a process that uses individual plant cells, tissues, or organs to cause the formation of a whole plant by totipotency. Plants are being cloned in this process. They are cultured through asexual reproduction or vegetative propagation. These propagation process is done in vitro conditions that produced genetically identical plants from a single individual plant.

Micropropagation begins with the choice of explant. It is chosen from a healthy mother plant. This is grown under laboratory conditions to produce a new plant.

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