Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

COURTESY Plants that propagate by division include this daylily "Lady Neva." Plant propagation simply refers to the reproduction of plants, and occurs by seeds or vegetative means such as cuttings ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

Argania spinosa (L.) is an endemic tree species of south-western Morocco; it plays a very important socio-economic and environmental role. However, the vegetative propagation of the argan tree by ...

One of the horticultural practices that nearly always fascinates those who have little background and/or experience with horticultural techniques is the relative ease with which a piece of plant can ...

A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...

The process of growing many plants from one plant by man-made methods is called artificial propagation of plants. A number of methods of artificial propagation of plants are used in agriculture and ...

The responses of reproduction and growth to climate warming are important issues to predict the fate of plant populations at high latitudes. Spring ephemerals inhabiting cool-temperate forests grow ...

Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual reproduction has many ...

Find CBSE Class 12th Biology notes for the chapter Reproduction in Organisms. Every concept is followed by the solved and unsolved questions. You can also find the various categories questions like ...