Question

If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeeds in having a single plant with a particularly desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to establishing a line of such plants?
A) Backtrack through her previous experiments to obtain another plant with the same traits.B) Breed this plant with another plant with much weaker traitsC) Clone the plant.D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one.

Answer 1

Answer: C -Clone the plant

Explanation:

Having a single plant, a hortuculturist will choose  an efficient route to replicate the traits he requires.Therefore, If a horticulturist breeding gardenia were to chose an option he  would most probably use Cloning.Cloning is the method that permits  propagation of large numbers of plants with a particularly desirable set of traits.When plants are propagated, it means that they're produced in large numbers in order to establishing a line of such plants.