Q.

Which of the following is correct for tissue culture?

i) Capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell / explants is called totipotency.

ii) An explants is the plant part excised from a specific location in a plant, to be used for initiating a culture.

iii) Method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called micro-propagation.

iv) Plants are produced by tissue culture, are genetically non-identical to the original plant from which they were grown so called somaclones.

 v) Scientists have succeeded in culturing meristems of banana, sugarcane, potato, etc.

 vi) Isolated protoplasts from two different varieties of plants in which natural breeding is only possible  can be fused to get somatic hybrids plant.

 vii) Pomato is obtained by somatic hybridization of potato and tomato.

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a

iv only

b

i, ii, iii, v, vi and vii

c

i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi and vii

answer is C.

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Plants produced by tissue culture, are genetically identical to the original plant from which they were grown. Hence they are called somaclones.

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