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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Natural vegetative propagation 4 of 7

Question 4

A bulbil is formed by the modification of which structure?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A vegetative bud or a floral bud. The bud thickens into a small self-contained package with a food store, then detaches and grows into a new plant.

The floral case is the interesting one: the plant begins building a flower, the structure for sexual reproduction, and converts it into a bulbil that reproduces asexually instead. No seed is involved at any point, which rules out a seed.

Answer the question to continue.