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- 3. is a method of plant propagation using extremely small pieces of plant tissue taken from a carefully chosen and prepared mother plant, and growing these under laboratory conditions to produce new plants. It is widely used in commercial horticulture.
- 4. a fragment of plant tissue that is used as starting material for plant tissue culture
- 7. a mass of exudation and connective tissue that forms around a break in a bone and is converted into bone in healing
- 10. nicking, breaking, softening, or otherwise weakening of the seed coating meant to speed up germination
- 11. a cutting consisting of a leaf instead of a shoot commonly used in propagating a plant
- 12. the process of creating new plants
- 15. the cultivation of plant cells, tissues, or organs on specially formulated nutrient media
- 16. a young plant grown from seed
- 18. is the process of allowing a plant to transition from a protected indoor or greenhouse environment to the harsh outdoor conditions of fluctuating spring temperatures, wind, and full sun exposure
- 19. a disease of seedlings caused by several different fungi and fungus-like organisms
- 22. a method of propagation where the entire plant is separated into smaller, whole pieces that contain all vegetative parts
- 24. the total of an individual plant's aboveground parts, including stems, leaves, and reproductive structures
- 26. used to propagate plants that naturally produce suckers (new shoots) from their roots
- 27. an estimation of the viability of seeds within a population
- 28. the processes used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue or organism
- 29. It provides a gel-like consistency to the medium, allowing plant cells to adhere, grow, and differentiate
- 31. the new shoot is just removed (detached) from the parent for planting
- 32. a process that uses laboratory-based technologies to alter the DNA makeup of an organism
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- 1. the reproduction of plants by seeds
- 2. the sowing of seeds directly into the garden or field
- 5. a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
- 6. involves taking vegetative parts of a plant (stems, roots, and/or leaves) and causing them to regenerate into a new plant or, in some cases, several plants.
- 8. a process of pre-treating seeds in order to simulate natural conditions that seeds would experience in the soil over-winter
- 9. the rooted plant that receives the scion
- 13. you start seeds indoors early (before it would be the optimal time to sow that seed outdoors) and transplant them outside only once the weather is right
- 14. the act of joining two plants together
- 17. a cutting consisting of a segment of current season's growth with a leaf, axillary bud, and a small section of stem used in the propagation of various plants
- 20. a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting
- 21. a small or young plant
- 23. a technique of plant propagation where the new plant remains at least partially attached to the mother plant while forming new roots and can occur naturally through modified stem structures
- 25. includes a piece of stem plus any attached leaves or buds.
- 30. an asexual reproduction method in which a new organism develops from a bud of an existing organism