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The major uses of 'vegetative propagation' are:
  • To produce strains of crops. Humans combine two of the same plants with different properties to produce a plant with both the properties. For example they may take a scion from an apple tree that can survive in the cold and attach it to a root stock of an apple tree that produces sweeter fruit to combine the two.
  • Vegetative propagation also includes "cuttings" which are essentially pieces of plant removed form a parent plant and then rooted to produce a new plant.
  • Tissue culture which is in effect doing the same as producing a plant from a cutting, but only under sterile laboratory conditions - and at a microscopic level

Plants propagated vegetatively are genetically identical to the parent plant

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