Question

What is common between vegetative reproduction and apomixis?

• A. Both are applicable to only dicot plants
• B. Both bypass the flowering phase
• C. Both occur round the year
• D. Both produce progeny identical to the parent

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Apomixis is a reproductive process in plants that superficially resembles normal sexual reproduction, but in which there is no fusion of gametes. The embryos develop simply by division of a diploid cell, the ovule. Hence, the progenies produced are identical to the parent. In vegetative reproduction also, progenies produced are identical to the parent.