Cloning plants & tissue culture

Question 1

Pros of cloning using cuttings

Answer 1

• Quicker
• Cheaper
• Less technical skills required

Question 2

Steps of cloning using cuttings

Answer 2

• Find a desirable plant you want to clone
• Cut off a small part (growing shoot or branch)
• Place cutting in soil with nutrients and hormones
• Cutting will grow into clone of original plant

Question 3

Steps of tissue culture

Answer 3

• Take very small pieces of plant tissue (known as explants) from the tips of stems
• Sterilise and lace explants into agar gel and let them grown into small masses of cells known as calluses
• Transfer callses to soil there they grow into plantels
• Transfer plantels to own pots