Plant Cloning

Question 1

Give the name of 2 ways to clone a plant?

Answer 1

Cuttings
Micropropagation

Question 2

Give the first step in cloning by cuttings?

Answer 2

Take a small part of the plant from the stem

Question 3

Give the second step in cloning by cuttings?

Answer 3

Place the cutting into rooting hormone

Question 4

Give the third step in cloning by cuttings?

Answer 4

Once roots form, the planting can now be planted in the soil

Question 5

What must the conditions be for micropropagation?

Answer 5

Sterile

Question 6

What is the first step in micropropagation?

Answer 6

take a cutting from the plant

Question 7

What is the second step in micropropagation?

Answer 7

Break up the plant and remove its cells

Question 8

What is the third step in micropropagation?

Answer 8

Place all the cells into a rooting hormone and let it build into a callus

Question 9

What is the fourth step in micropropagation?

Answer 9

Once the cells grow and become a plantlet place into soil and plant it

Question 10

How does cuttings and micropropagation differ?

Answer 10

Micropropagation is for mass cloning