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taking segments of roots, leaves or stems and placing them under appropriate conditions
What is Cuttings
100
organs formed as part of a root system that is easily collected and separated by propagators
What is Bulbs
100
plants that produce new shoots from adventitious buds that develop on roots
What is Sucker Shoots
100
When reproduction is deliberately controlled and manipulated, it is called
What is propagation.
100
stems that grow along the ground and form new plants at one or more of their nodes
What is Runners
200
roots develop on a stem that is still attached to the parent plant
What is Layering
200
buds of one plant are implanted into the stem of another compatible species
What is Budding
200
the upper portion of one plant can be joined with the lower portion of a different plant
What is Grafting
200
production of a seed without meiosis and fertilization
What is Apomictic Embryos
200
using small sections of meristematic shoot tissue or callus tissue to grow a new plant under carefully controlled environmental conditions
What is Tissue Culture
300
is a vegetative process that eliminates genetic variation.
What is Asexual reproduction
300
A gamate with one set of chromosomes is
What is haploidal.
300
aerial shoots that take root after coming into contact with the soil
What is Stolons
300
is the normal division of cell nuclei that occurs as plants grow, involving not reduction and recombination of chromosomes.
What is Mitosis
300
The crown of a plant is divided once it enlarges to allow each root-shoot to develop into a new plant
What is Crown Division
400
The reproduction of plants through the formation of seeds is called
What is sexual reproduction.
400
When organisms duplicate themselves, it is known as
What is reproduction.
400
completes the division of the nonnuclear remainder of the cell’s contents and the formation of a new cell wall.
What is Cytokinesis
400
A cell formed through sexual reproduction that has two sets of chromosomes is known as a
What is zygote.
400
is a sequence of cell divisions that reduces the number of chromosomes in a cell by half.
What is Meiosis
500
The exposure of seeds to low temperatures is
What is stratification.
500
The breaking of a seed coat otherwise impervious to water to permit water uptake by the embryo is
What is scarification.
500
are bodies within the nucleus of the cell that are composed of DNA and proteins.
What is Chromosomes
500
The external appearance of a plant is called the
What is phenotype.
500
The genetic composition of a plant is called the
What is genotype.