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Reproduction in Organisms
Vegetative propagation
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Concepts tested
- Asexual and vegetative structures
- offset-vegetative-propagation
- plantlets-from-nodes
- Rhizome
- Vegetative propagules
All Questions
2018 1 question
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Offsets are produced by
Vegetative propagules arise by mitosis.
An offset is a vegetative part of a plant, formed by mitosis. Meiotic divisions do not occur in somatic cells. Parthenogenesis is the formation of an embryo from an ovum or egg without fertilisation. Parthenocarpy is fruit formation without fertilisation (generally seedless).
2016 Phase II 1 question
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Which one of the following statements is not correct?
2015 AIPMT-I 1 question
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In ginger vegetative propagation occurs throughGinger propagates through its rhizome, an underground horizontal branching stem.
Offsets are short stout runners ending in a bud, bulbils are modified buds, and runners are lateral branches growing along the ground.
2012 AIPMT-PRE 1 question
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Which one of the following is correctly matched?Onion propagates by bulbs.
Yeast reproduces by budding, ginger by rhizome and Chlamydomonas by zoospores; conidia are formed by Penicillium.
2011 AIPMT-MAINS 1 question
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Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched while the remaining three are correct?Water hyacinth ($Eichhornia$) propagates vegetatively by offsets, not runners. An offset is a short, thick lateral branch with a tuft of leaves, found in aquatic plants like $Pistia$ and $Eichhornia$.
$Bryophyllum$ propagates by adventitious buds arising from the notches at the margins of its leaves (leaf buds) – correct.
$Agave$ propagates by bulbils, fleshy buds that fall off and grow into new plants – correct.
$Penicillium$ reproduces asexually by conidia – correct.
Hence the wrongly matched pair is water hyacinth – runner.
