Questions 1.

Tissue culture uses a small piece of tissue from a mother plant to grow many new copies of the original plant. What is the term used to refer to this small piece of tissue? Explant is the term used to this small piece of tissue. 2. Why is tissue culture used for propagation of some plants rather than just planting seeds? Tissue culture are use when: a) we want to have many plants that are genetically identical, b) we only have a very small amount of tissue or small number of plants but we need to increase them, c) we have genetically transformed single plant cells that we need to develop into mature plants