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Long Answer Type(1) Plants produced by vegetative propagation are genetically similar and constitute a uniform population called as clone.
(2) Plants that have reduced power of sexual reproduction, long dormant period of seed, poor viability can be multiplied by vegetative methods.
(3) Some fruit trees like banana, pineapple that do not produce viable seeds and dub grass which produces small quantity of seeds can be propagated by vegetative methods.
(4) It is a rapid and easier method of propagation.
(5) Good characters can be preserved by vegetative propagation.
(6) Vegetative Propagation can be used to develop Virus Free plants.
(7) Grafting helps in getting an economically important plant having useful characteristic of two different individuals in short time in a single plant.
Short Answer TypeExamine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the staminate and pistillate flowers. Do you know any other plant that bears unisexual flowers?
Why are offspring of oviparous animals at a greater risk as compared to offspring of viviparous animals?
Why do algae and fungi shift to sexual mode of reproduction just before the onset of adverse conditions?
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