The tissue culture technique can produce an infinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of the technique is in raising
Correct answer: A. Genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
- A. Genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
- B. Homozygous diploid plants
- C. New species
- D. Variants through picking up somaclonal variations.
Explanation
Plant tissue culture, also called micro propagation, is the growth of plant cells outside the plant body in a suitable culture medium which contains a mixture of nutrients in solid or liquid form, under controlled environmental conditions. Tissue culture technique is based on the totipotent nature of plant cells or phenomenon of totipotency i.e., each and every plant cell has an inherent capacity to develop into a complete plant. The entirely vegetatively produced descendants of somatic cells are collectively called clone. They are genetically identical to their parents.
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