Question

How do plants reproduce?list the method of reproduction found in potatoes and in apple trees?

Answer 1

Sexual reproduction in flowering plants involves the production of male and female gametes, the transfer of the male gametes to the female ovules in a process called pollination. After pollination occurs, fertilization happens and the ovules grow into seeds within a fruit.

Potatoes are mainly propagated by vegetative methods (cloning). Potato tubers have nodes or eyes from which the new growth begins. The new stems growing from each eye are called sprouts which giver rise to the new plant. Vegetative seed can be either a whole tuber or a cut tuber.

An apple tree potentially reproduces in multiple ways. It is propagated sexually by seed to create a genetically unique young tree or using a variety of asexual propagation techniques to clone a desirable parent apple tree.