Botany · Biotechnology
NEET (UG) 2024 — Question 109
The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell of the plant is called:
- Option A:Correct
Totipotency
- Option B:
Micropropagation
- Option C:
Differentiation
- Option D:
Somatic hybridization
Answer: A
Step-by-step solution
Totipotency is the capacity of a single plant cell to generate a complete new plant under suitable conditions. Option A is exactly this definition. Micropropagation is a tissue-culture technique that uses totipotency, but it is not the capacity itself. Differentiation is the structural and functional specialisation of cells. Somatic hybridization is the fusion of protoplasts from different species, not the ability of one cell to form a whole plant. Therefore, the correct answer is A.
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- Exam
- NEET (UG) 2024
- Paper
- 2024 paper
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Biotechnology
- Topic
- Tissue Culture