question_answer 73)

  Give me a living cell of any plant and I will give you a thousand plants of the same type". Is this only a slogan or is it scientifically possible? Write your comments and justify them.

Answer:

                  It is scientifically possible to grow thousand plants from a living cell of any plant and this process is called micropropagation. The property of plant cells that helped them to grow into a new plant is totipotency. Micropropagation is the use of plant cell culture to regenerate large number of plants. This results in genetically identical plants and is also called clonal propagation-Hence, the desirable characters are kept constant for many generations. Micro propagation is widely used in forestry and in floriculture. Plants can be obtained throughout the year under controlled conditions.