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Question
Briefly explain why a gardener prefers to grow certain plants vegetatively?
Solution
Gardener prefer to grow certain plants by vegetative method. The advantages in doing so are as follows:
- Reproduction by vegetative parts takes place in a shorter time.
- New plants, thus produced, spread very fast in a small area.
- It is a surer method.
- All the characters of the mother plant are retained by the daughter plants.
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