Somaclones are ________________.

Somatic hybrids

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Genetically identical to the original plant

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Used to recover disease free plants

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Sterile plants

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Solution

The correct option is A Genetically identical to the original plant
Somaclones are genetically identical plants developed from any part of a plant by tissue culture micropropagation.

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	I		II
1.	Totipotency	(a)	Breeding crops with higher levels of nutrients
2.	Micropropagation	(b)	Plant grown from hybrid protoplast
3.	Somaclone	(c)	Producing large number of plants through tissue culture
4.	Somatic hybrid	(d)	Capacity to gene rate a whole plant from an explant
5.	Biofortification	(e)	Plants genetically identical to original plant

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