(a) What is meant by vegetative propagation?(b) Vegetative propagation involves the growth and development of 'something' present in the old part of the plant to form a new plant. What is this 'something'?(c) Why do green grass plants spring up in dry fields on their own after rains?

(a) Vegetative propagation is an asexual method of reproduction in which plants can grow and reproduce from stems, roots and leaves. The new plants can grow from the detached part (stems, roots and leaves) of the plant because it has sufficient cells to divide and produce a new individual.

(b) This something in the sentence refers to stems, roots and leaves.

Vegetative propagation involves the growth and development of "stems, roots and leaves" present in the old part of the plant to form a new plant. 

(c) Green grass plants spring up in dry fields on their own after rains because after rains, the inactive buds upon dried shoots of a grass plant, present all over the ground, become active and leads to the growth of new plants.

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Updated on: 23-Mar-2023

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