If a Horticulturist Breeding Gardenias Succeeds in Having a Single

question 59

Multiple Choice

If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeeds in having a single plant with a particularly desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to establishing a line of such plants?

• A) Backtrack through her previous experiments to obtain another plant with the same traits.
• B) Breed this plant with another plant with much weaker traits.
• C) Clone the plant asexually to produce an identical one.
• D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one.
• E) Add nitrogen to the soil of the offspring of this plant so the desired traits continue.

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