Same as the parent
New plants from a part copy the parent.
A rose cutting
A gardener grows a new rose plant from a cut piece of a rose plant.
How will the new plant compare with the parent?
What this lesson covers
The idea
Plants produced by vegetative propagation are genetically similar enough to the parent plant to have all its characteristics, and can bear flowers and fruits earlier than plants produced from seeds.
A rose cutting
A gardener grows a new rose plant from a cut piece of a rose plant.
How will the new plant compare with the parent?
- It will have all the parent's characteristics
- It will be totally different
- It will not have any flowers
Parent and new plant
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A faithful copy, sooner
The new plant is genetically similar enough to the parent to have all of the parent's characteristics. It can also bear flowers and fruits earlier than a plant grown from a seed.
Plants produced by vegetative propagation are genetically similar enough to the parent plant to have all its characteristics, and can bear flowers and fruits earlier than plants produced from seeds.
Notes
Vegetatively raised plants have all the characteristics of the parent and can bear flowers and fruits earlier than plants grown from seeds.
Check yourself
A new plant raised by vegetative propagation has …
Compared with plants produced from seeds, plants raised by vegetative propagation can bear flowers and fruits …
Why is vegetative propagation useful for banana, orange, rose and jasmine?
- none of the parent's characteristics. The plants are genetically similar enough to the parent to have all its characteristics.
- all the characteristics of the parent plant — correct. Yes!
- only the colour of the parent. They have all the parent's characteristics, not only one.
- later. The book says they can bear flowers and fruits earlier than those produced from seeds.
- only after seeds have formed. They can bear flowers and fruits earlier than plants produced from seeds.
- earlier — correct. Yes!
- They have lost the capacity to produce seeds — correct. Yes!
- They grow only from seeds. The book says these plants have lost the capacity to produce seeds, so vegetative propagation makes their propagation possible.
- Their seeds are too big to plant. The book's reason is that they have lost the capacity to produce seeds.