Q.

The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell of the plant is called:                [2024]

1 totipotency  
2 micropropagation  
3 differentiation  
4 somatic hybridisation  

Ans.

(1)

Totipotency is the capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell or explant. Any part of a plant can be taken out and grown in a test tube under sterile conditions in a special nutrient medium to regenerate a whole plant by virtue of totipotency.