one human somatic cell
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.