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In some lower and higher plants offspring are produced shows greater similarity and it occurs mainly through asexual reproduction,in higher plants the process ocuurs through vegetative propagation.
a) What is vegetative propagation?
b) Give two suitable examples.

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MAXIMUM PUBLICATION-REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISM-EXERCISE
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  2. How does the progeny formed from asexual reproduction differ from thos...

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  3. In some lower and higher plants offspring are produced shows greater s...

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  4. Distinguish between asexual and sexual reproductions. Why is vegetativ...

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  5. Higher organisms have resorted to sexual reproduction in spite of its ...

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  6. Some organism are capable of producing fertilized egg but others are n...

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  7. Some organism are capable of producing fertilized egg but others are n...

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  8. Pre-fertilizations events of sexual reproduction in all organisms are ...

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  9. Prefertilisation events of sexual reproduction in all organisms are g...

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  10. In papaya, the flowers are:

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  11. In vegetative propagation, characters of parent plants are: Changed ...

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  12. Rhizopus reproduces asexually by:

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  13. In potato , vegetative propagation takes place by: a) Root b) Lea...

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  14. Vegetative propagated plants are : Genetically similar Genetically di...

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  15. Syngamy means:

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  16. In which pair both the plants can be vegetatively propagated by leaf p...

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  17. Regeneration of a plant cell to give rise to new plant is called:

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  18. Hydra reproduces asexually by

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  19. Animals giving birth to young ones are

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  20. The offspring that are exactly identical to one another as wel as iden...

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