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Why vegetative propagation is considered as a type of asexual reproduction?

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Vegetative propagation is considered as a type of asexual reproduction because
(i) It is a type of uniparental reproduction.
(ii) Cells divide by mitosis and no reductional division (meiosis) occurs.
(iii) It does not involve genetic variations.
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