The term 'totipotency' means

A group of animals of unrelated characters

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The capacity of a cell to regenerate into a whole plant

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Hybrids formed as a result of somatic hybridization

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Sexually produced offsprings

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The correct option is B The capacity of a cell to regenerate into a whole plant
Totipotency is the ability of cells such as an embryonic stem cell to differentiate into any type of body cell. Plant cells are also totipotent, which helps to explain why a graft of a plant can generate a whole new individual out of just a small branch cutting.

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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

The term 'totipotency' refers to the capacity of a

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