Question

How does the following organism reproduce by asexual methods?

Potato

Answer 1

Reproduction:

1. Reproduction is a process and an essential life process that involves the formation of a new organism or offspring by the parent organism.

Asexual reproduction:

1. It is a reproduction in which fertilization does not occur and no flowers are required for the formation of a new organism.
2. Budding, vegetative propagation, spore formation, fragmentation, etc are types of asexual reproduction in plants.

Reproduction in potato:

1. Potato propagates vegetatively i.e by an asexual mode of reproduction.
2. The tubers of the potato play a role in vegetative propagation.
3. The tubers have eyes or nodes through which the development of a new plant begins.