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A plant breeder clones a plant with beautiful flowers. Define cloning and explain how the cloned offspring compare to the parent plant.

2007-03-28 04:43:54 · 2 answers · asked by Bootylicious 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Cloning is when you take DNA from the parent cell and insert it into the Nucleus of an offspring's cell.

He must have taken the Beautiful flower genes out of the parent cells and put them into the offspings nucleus so that when the offspring grows up it will have beautiful flowers too

2007-03-28 05:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Cloning plants is not the same as cloning animals. On many plants, a branch or stem can be broken off and put in water. The branch or stem will grow new roots and can then be replanted. It is an exact duplicate (clone) of the plant it was taken from.

Also, plants can be grafted. All apples that we eat come from grafted trees because when you plant apple seeds, the kind of apple tree that grows may be nothing like the tree the seed came from. So, to produce the same kind of apple as a "parent" tree, a small branch is cut off and grafted to another apple tree. This branch grows as a clone of the tree it was cut from and produces the exact same apples.

2007-03-28 06:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0 0

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