Tissue Culture

Tissue Culture

• A. Nutrient test
• B. Method to check for pesticides
• C. Asexual propagation
• D. Method of grafting

Answer: (C)

Tissue culture is a technique that grows plant cells or small pieces of tissue in a sterile, nutrient-rich medium to produce new plantlets. The main feature is producing many uniform plants that are genetically identical to the original plant, which is asexual propagation—you’re cloning the parent. The nutrients and hormones in the culture medium support rapid growth, but the purpose is to generate new plants, not to analyze nutrients or detect pesticides. Grafting is a separate method that physically joins tissues from two plants, so tissue culture is not grafting. Because its primary outcome is creating clones through asexual propagation, that option is the best fit.

Tissue culture is a technique that grows plant cells or small pieces of tissue in a sterile, nutrient-rich medium to produce new plantlets. The main feature is producing many uniform plants that are genetically identical to the original plant, which is asexual propagation—you’re cloning the parent. The nutrients and hormones in the culture medium support rapid growth, but the purpose is to generate new plants, not to analyze nutrients or detect pesticides. Grafting is a separate method that physically joins tissues from two plants, so tissue culture is not grafting. Because its primary outcome is creating clones through asexual propagation, that option is the best fit.