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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Artificial vegetative propagation 10 of 11

Question 10

Which advantage belongs to tissue culture in particular, rather than to cuttings, layering and grafting as well?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A large number of healthy plants can be raised within a small space. The starting piece is a few cells in a flask, so one parent yields far more plants, far faster, on a bench rather than in a field.

The other three are true of every vegetative method, artificial or natural, because they follow from the biology rather than the technique. A question asking what is special about one method is not answered by something all four share.

Answer the question to continue.