A nursery plants 60 rose cuttings, and 85% of them grow roots.
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A nursery plants rose cuttings, and of them grow roots. How many new rose plants does it get? Give two reasons why the nursery uses cuttings instead of seeds.
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
In asexual reproduction one parent makes new individuals without gametes: fission (binary in Amoeba and Leishmania, multiple in Plasmodium), fragmentation (Spirogyra), regeneration (Planaria), budding (Hydra), spores (Rhizopus) and vegetative propagation in plants. In binary fission each round doubles the number of cells.
The worked solution
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Step 1. Plants. plants.
Step 2. Reasons. The plants flower sooner than plants from seed, and every plant is like the parent, so a good variety stays true.
Answer: plants; cuttings give quicker flowering and copies of a good variety.
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