The term 'totipotency' refers to the capacity of a

Cell to generate a whole plant

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Cell to enlarge in size

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Seed to germinate

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Bud to generate a whole plant

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The correct option is A
Cell to generate a whole plant

When we take any part of a plant to develop a new embryoid, it has the capacity to generate a whole plant which is called cellular totipotency.

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The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell/explants is called:

	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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