Ques. 1NEET 2013 (Karnataka)
Tissue culture technique can produce infinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of the technique is in raising:
- development of new species
- genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
- variants through picking up somaclonal variations
- homozygous diploid plants
Answer
(2) genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
Solution
As per NCERT, the method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called micropropagation.
⇒ Each of these plants is genetically identical to the original plant from which they were grown, i.e. they are somaclones.
⇒ Hence the economic importance of the technique lies in raising a large, genetically uniform population identical to the original parent in a short time (e.g. tomato, banana, apple).
Answer: (2)