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Cloning Plants & Animals Plant Cloning Cloning can also happen as a result of human intervention. Tissue culture or micro-propagation is a way of propagating plants very quickly by taking a small number of cells from a 'parent' plant and growing them in a medium rich in nutrients and plant growth hormones. This technique involves the following steps: 1. A small amount of parent tissue or a number of cells are taken and 2. transferred to plates containing sterile nutrient agar jelly, 3. Auxins are added to stimulate the cells to divide by mitosis 4. Cells grow rapidly into small masses of tissue 5. More growth hormones are added to stimulate the growth of roots and stems Advantages of tissue culture Disadvantages of tissue culture A lot of new plants can be grown in a relatively short time All plants have same genetic make-up - so will all be vulnerable to same diseases or pests Little space is...

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