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"Understand the Nature of Natural and Artificial Cloning of Plants and Animals."
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Peter Webster 6WH Mr. Stott "Understand the Nature of Natural and Artificial Cloning of Plants and Animals." Asexual reproduction is the production of offspring from a single parent using mitosis. Therefore, with only 1 set of chromosomes being involved the offspring will be genetically identical to the "parent". This means that the offspring will be a clone of the "parent". Asexual reproduction can be either natural or artificial. In this essay I aim to cover all the possible methods of cloning, as illustrated in the table below. Organism Natural Methods Artificial Methods Plants Vegetative Propagation Parthenogenesis Cuttings Grafting Tissue Culture Animals Budding Fragmentation Parthenogenesis Embryo Splitting Somatic Cell Cloning Vegetative Reproduction, describes all the natural methods of asexual reproduction in plants. The first way a plant can clone itself is by Vegetative Propagation. A bud grows from a vegetative part of the plan, usually the stem, and develops into...
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