Question

Karen, a famous botanist, propagates thousands of spider plants in her greenhouses. She uses a small cluster of plant cells and grows them first in a nutrient base. Just a few cells eventually grow into a new plant. Which explanation BEST describes how this type of asexual reproduction can occur in many plants? A) Plants can grow in a nutrient medium and animal cells cannot. B) Plant cells go through the cell cycle a a much faster rate than any other types of cells. C) Plant cells are undifferentiated and under certain conditions, can differentiate into all three plants tissues. D) Plant cells differentiate immediately after fertilization; a small clump will contain all the cell types needed to grow a new plant.

Answer 1

In the given case, as just a few cells finally develop into a new plant, it shows that the plant cells are undifferentiated and under certain circumstances, can proliferate into all the three plant tissues. The correct answer is option C.  

The three major kinds of plant tissues are ground, dermal, and vascular tissues. The dermal tissue comprises the external of a plant in a single layer of cells known as the epidermis. The ground tissue forms the majority of the interior of a plant and conducts the basic metabolic activities. The vascular tissue runs via the ground tissue within a plant.