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- Asexual reproduction in plants
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- Runner shoots
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- Horizontal stems that grow above ground along the surface of the soil from which new plants will grow from
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- Axillary/lateral buds on the stem
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- Adventitious roots
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- Strawberry plant
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- Root tubers
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- When fibrous roots become swollen with food
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- New plants grow from the axillary buds on the swollen root
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- Dahlia
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- Bulbs
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- Short swollen underground stem
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- The apical or axillary bud can give rise to bulbs from which new plants can form
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- Onions
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- Mother leaf grows plantlets/smaller leaves on itself
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- When they detach from mother leaf and land on the ground, new plants can grow from them
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- Mother of thousands
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- Cut off a section of a stem of a plant
- Dip the cut end into rooting powder to stimulate root growth
- Plant the stem and it will grow into an identical plant as the parent
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- Combining the desired features of two different plants
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- If you have a tree with great shoot system but has a poor root system
- Graft a better root system from a different plant onto the tree
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- Take the stem of the parent plant and pin it beneath the soil (no not detach the stem from original plant)
- The part of stem beneath soil will develop a root system
- Part of the stem above the soil will develop a shoot system
- Eventually when the stem grows its own fully developed root system it can be detached
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- Tissue culturing
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- Plant tissue is obtained from parent plant
- Plant tissue is placed in a sterile growth medium
- A callus of cells forms
- This callus of cells is treated with growth regulators to stimulate root and shoot growth
- Eventually a plantlet forms
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- A mass of undifferentiated cells
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- There are no seeds produced in vegetative propagation
1. There are seeds produced in sexual reproduction
- There is no fertilisation in vegetative propagation
2. There is fertilisation involved in sexual reproduction
- All offspring is genetically identical in vegetative propagation
3. Offspring has genetic variation in sexual reproduction
- Vegetative propagation is a fast process
4. Sexual reproduction is a slow process/may not occur
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- There is no variation so plant reserves its desirable features
- It is a fast process
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- Plant is more prone to disease