Why plants propagated vegetatively are usually like the parents?

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In vegetative propagation only one parent is involved and there is no combination or fusion of two different cells as in sexual reproduction, thus there is no variations and the plants propagated vegetatively are usually like their parents.

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Why plants propagated vegetatively are usually like the parents?

Some More Questions From Our Environment Chapter

Why cannot all multicellular organisms divide cell-by-cell like Spirogyra?

How is the problem of dobling of the amount of DNA solved ?

Write names of five plants in which stem is used to produce a new plant.

Give one example of plant which uses leaves for propagation. Draw propagation organ.

List four methods of vegetative propagation which are exploited by man in propagating plants in garden and nurseries.

Write five names of plants which are usually propagated by cutting method.

Name a ornamental plant which is grown by the vegetaive propagation of stem.

What are the different types of asexual reproduction?

Describe the binary and multiple modes of asexual reproduction in organisms.

Explain budding, spore formation, regeneration and fragmentation modes of asexual reproduction.

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