NSCI 1404 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Plant Reproduction, Asexual Reproduction, Microspore

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NSCI 1404
• Professor: Mark Botton

Document Summary

Asexual reproduction is the production of an offspring identical to a single parent. Asexual reproduction is less complicated in plants because pollination and seed production is not required. Therefore, it can be advantageous when the parent is already well adapted to a particular environment, and the production of genetic variations is not an apparent necessity. Plant reproduction via stolons aboveground horizontal stems. a) the asexual offspring grows from the stolons off of the parent plant. b) the characteristics of the offspring are identical to those of the parent plant. Three methods of cloning plants due to the ability of plants to grow from single cells are somatic embryogenesis, meristem tissue culture, and another tissue culture. Cell suspension culture allows scientists to extract chemicals from plant cells in high concentrations without having to overcollect wild-type plants growing in their natural environment. Single cells or small clumps form a suspension of cells; all produce the same chemicals as the entire plant.