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Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production

Question
CBSEENBI12047097

Assertion : In plant tissue culture, somatic embryos can be induced from any plant cell.

Reason : Any viable plant cell can differentiate into somatic embryos.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements

Solution

A.

If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

Any viable somatic cell of a plant has the ability to form full fledged plants. This ability of plant cell is known as cellular totipotency. Therefore, it is defined as the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organisms.