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Agriculture · Q743

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 743

Q743

The capacity of a cell to develop into a complete plant is called

A.
Tissue culture
B.
Polyploidy
C.
Totipotency
Answer
D.
Haploidy

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The capacity of a cell to develop into a complete plant is called Totipotency.
Totipotency is the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organism.
It represents the cell with the greatest differentiation potential, being able to differentiate into any embryonic cell, as well as any extraembryonic cell.