Tissue culture

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  • Created by: BethCM
  • Created on: 25-01-18 18:21

Process of Tissue Culture

1) Choose the plant you want to clonebased on its characteristics

2) Remove several small peieces of tissue form the parent plant. Best results come from fast growing roots or shoots.

3) Grow the tissue in a growth medium containing nutrients and growth hormones. This is done under aseptic conditions.

4) As the tissues produce shots and roots they can be moved to potting compost to carry on growing.

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Tissue culture identical cells

1) Tissue culture produces many identical cells by asexually reproducting. This means that the new plants are identical clones of the original plant.

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Advantages of Tissue culture in medical research

1) Animal tissue culture is often used in medical research because it means that you can carry out all kinds of experiments on tissues in isolation. For example you can investigate the effect of glucose on cells in the pancreas by growing pancreatic cells.

2) It means that you can look at the effects of a particular substance or environmental change on the cells of a single tissue without complications from other processes in the whole organism

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Advantages of Tissue culture in plant breeding

1) The advantages of using tissue culture in plant breeding are 

  • Creating extact copies mean that you gain the desriable characteristics of a paricular plant. For example a plant that produces partically good flowers.
  • To be mass produce plants and food
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