If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeeds in having a single plant with a particularly desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to establishing a line of such plants?
A) Backtrack through her previous experiments to obtain another plant with the same traits.
B) Breed this plant with another plant with much weaker traits.
C) Clone the plant asexually to produce an identical one.
D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one.
E) Add nitrogen to the soil of the offspring of this plant so the desired traits continue.
Plant apical meristems and the primary tissues they produce.
Diagram of a typical fossil-fueled power plant
Plant Cell Wall Structure
Plant
Mendel's Seven Pea Plant Traits
Cytokinesis in animal cells (a) and plant cells (b)