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| Two methods of plant propagation |
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sexual (seed)
asexual (vegetative) |
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| ripened ovule containing a seed coat, endosperm, and embryo |
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| activation of a seeds metabolic machinery leading to seedling emergence |
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| water, oxygen, temperature |
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| benefits of sexual propagation |
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| cheap and easy, capitalize on genetic diversity, cleanse plants of disease, employ breeding techniques |
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| methods of asexual propagation |
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| cuttings, grafting, tissue culture |
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| clonal propagation of plant material through leaves, stems, and roots |
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| tissue cultures where organs and tissues are established and maintained in aseptic cultures |
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| joining of two living plants together so they grow as one composite plant |
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| benefits of asexual propagation |
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| plant uniformity, to bypass juvenility, to prop plants that do not produce seed, to prop plants not true to seed, to prop plants difficult to root |
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| embryonic, juvenility, transition, adult |
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