Some crop plants can be grown from a seed as well as vegetatively from stemcutting. List any four advantages of vegetative propagation in such cases.

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Advantages are:-
Offsprings produced are identical to the parents.
Positive characters remain conserved, as there are no chances of variations.
It is less time consuming and more number of progeny can be produced.
Only single parent is involved.

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