A trip to your local garden center will provide you with more clones
than you can shake a stick at. Named varieties of roses, iris,
daylilies, cannas, etc.--anything where being exactly like Mom is
necessary to maintain the name and the profit--will be vegetatively
propagated. That is a form of cloning. Variation will arise from
sports or mutations (like seedless grapefruit being borne on a seeded
grapefruit tree). You will also get variation due to habitat,
nutrition, etc. You might do a nice display in a small space with
cacti, African violets, bromeliads, orchids, or other plants usually
propagated by division.
M. Reed
martin weiss wrote:
>> I am thginking of developing an exhibit in a sciecne museum to
> illustrate how the environment effects phenotype despite a constant
> genome. I'd like to exhibit a number of cloned plants under the same
> environmental conditions and illustrate how plants with the sdame genome
> will have different physical characteristics.
>> Must I start with cells or are their plants that are clones that I can
> take parts of and still grow the clone? Any and all help apreciated.
> Respond top list and/or mweiss at nyhallsci.org>> Martin Weiss, PhD
> Director of Sciemce
> New York Hall of Science
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