Coconut milk (coconut water) is widely used in tissue culture because it contains

Gibberellins

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Ethylene

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Cytokinin

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Auxins

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Solution

The correct option is C
Cytokinin

Skoog observed that coconut milk contained a substance which stimulated cell division. The substance was later on called cytokinin.

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