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Give me a living cell of any plant and I will give you a thousand plants of the same type" , Is this only a slogan or is it scientifically possibel ?

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IT is scitifically possible to gwow thousand plants from a living cell of any plant and this process is called micropropagation , the property of plants cells that helped them to grow into a new plant is totipotency
Micropagation is the use of plant cell culture to regenate alrge number of plants ,this results in geneticalyy identical plants and is also called clonal propagation .
Hence the desirable charactoers are kept constant for many generations Micropropagation is widely used in forestry and in flouculyure plants can be obtained throughout the year under controlled conditions.
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