<p> Chapter 5 Plant Reproduction Study Questions</p><p>1. When organisms duplicate themselves, the process is termed ______.</p><p>2. When production is deliberately controlled and manipulated, it becomes ______.</p><p>3. The reproduction of plants through the formation of seeds is called ______.</p><p>4. ______is a vegetative process that eliminates genetic variation.</p><p>5. ______is the normal division of a cell nucleus that occurs as a plant grows, enlarging from embryo to maturity.</p><p>6. In a natural world, plants reproduce both ______and ______.</p><p>7. Sexual propagation utilizes ______.</p><p>8. ______is the breaking of a seed coat otherwise impervious to water to permit water uptake by the embryo.</p><p>9. ______is the exposure of the seeds to low temperatures.</p><p>10. When many plants are reproduced asexually from a single plant, the group of new plants is termed a ______.</p><p>11. Plants of horticultural importance that are propagated almost totally by asexual means are termed ______. They are a type of ______.</p><p>12. ______are stems that grow along the ground and form new plants at one or more of their nodes.</p><p>13. ______are aerial shoots that take root after coming into contact with the soil.</p><p>14. Certain plants produce new shoots from adventitious buds that develop on the roots called ______.</p><p>15. In ______, roots develop on a stem that is still attached to the parent plant. 16. ______is the most common means of reproducing plants asexually.</p><p>17. A plants external appearance is also known as its ______.</p><p>18. A plants genetic composition is also known as its ______.</p><p>19. What vegetable did Gregor Mendel take two strains that were notably different in height and conduct experiments on?</p><p>20. When the sexual reproduction process is controlled by the deliberate actions of human beings, ______results and a specialized science, ______, takes effect.</p><p>21. ______are spontaneous changes in the genetic structure of a plant.</p><p>22. List 5 Asexual propagation techniques. a. b. c. d. e.</p>