Asexual Reproduction in Plants

What do you call the young plants that grow around the mother banana plant?

• suckers

• runners

• rhizomes

• tubers

These are horizontal stems that grow out of the mother plant along the surface.

• runners

• suckers

• rhizomes

• tubers

This is a horizontal stem of a plant that grows beneath the surface of the ground.

• rhizomes

• suckers

• runners

• tubers

The enlarged tip of a rhizome.

• tuber

• sucker

• runner

• bulb

A large rounded bud with a small basal step at the lower end.

• bulb

• tuber

• sucker

• rhizome

It supplies chlorophyll with energy in order to produce glucose from photosynthesis.

• light

• water

• soil

• air

It is the plant's primary source of moisture and nutrients.

• soil

• water

• leaves

• roots

An important gas in making glucose and other essential substances manufactured and needed by plants.

• carbon dioxide

• carbon monoxide

• oxygen

• hydrogen

In vegetative propagation the child plant is an exact copy of the mother plant.

• true

• false

Asexual reproduction in plants is the production of a new plant with only one parent involved.

• true

• false