... bulbs, e.g. Daffodils as rhizomes, e.g. couch grass as runners, e.g. strawberry plants and as tubers e.g. potato plants, these methods are summarized below: [image002.gif] The second method is Spores. These are simply specialised cells that are released from the parent in large numbers to be dispersed. Each spore can grow into a new plant identical plant to its "parent". The final natural plant cloning method is parthenogenesis. It is used by some plants like citrus fruits and also some invertebrate animals e.g. honeybees and aphids, as an alternative to sexual reproduction. The egg cells simply develop into offspring without being fertilised. These clones can be haploid or the chromosomes could replicate making them diploid. Cloning plants is a very big industry; brewers, farmers and plant growers all want to be able to produce and reproduce the best organisms exactly. Asexual reproduction is okay for some plants to reproduce, like ...

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