1) 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.
D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one.

2) Which of the following defines a genome?
A) the complete set of an organism's polypeptides
B) the complete set of a species' polypeptides
C) a karyotype
D) the complete set of an organism's genes and other DNA sequences

3) Asexual reproduction occurs during _____. A) meiosis
B) mitosis
C) fertilization

D) chromosome exchange between organisms of different species