Cloning

Plant cloning

Plant cuttings:

1.Small peices of a plant (often the leaves or stem) are cut away.

2. These cuttings are placed within the right conditions needed to grow a plant:

• In the presence of oxygen
• Provided with a water supply
• Provided with a light source
• Given nutrients from the agar jelly 

Or, the plant cuttings may be placed into a rooting powder (containing plant hormones and nutrients).

3. Small plants grow identically to the plant of which cuttings were taken

Tissue culture: 

Tissue culture is a modern method of cloning plants. This process is more expensive than plant cuttings, but it produces a larger amount of identical plants from a single plant tissue.

1. Tissue cells are scraped from…