When living things reproduce they create offspring.

Living things create offspring when they reproduce.

A parent plant is a plant that has reproduced and created offspring.

Asexual reproduction involves one parent and produces offspring that has the same characteristics as the parent.

Clones are offspring that have been created asexually and have identical characteristics to their parent.

Plants from cuttings

Science

In this Reproduction and life cycles: plants unit, pupils learn to describe the life process of reproduction in some plants. In the Evolution and inheritance unit, they will build on this knowledge to learn that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

In the What plants do and what they need unit, pupils learnt to explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants. In this Reproduction and life cycles: plants unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to describe the life processes of reproduction in some plants

Reproduction and life cycles: plants

Plants can only reproduce by making seeds.

Plants must always be pollinated by animals before they can reproduce.

Plants cannot reproduce on their own; there must be a second parent plant.

Which statement about plant reproduction is correct?

We can take {{}} from plants to produce a new plant.

Cut a small stem or side stem from a plant.

Keep it somewhere light and warm but out of direct sunlight.

Starting with the first, order the steps to explain how to produce a new plant from a cutting.

they will have the same characteristics as the parent plant.

they will grow to be bigger and stronger than their parent plant.

they have been created in a lab by scientists.

Plants that have been produced with cuttings are clones of the parent plant, which means…

Plant growth from cuttings can be __________ over time to help us understand more about plant reproduction.

the time it took her to write down her observations

Sofia is observing how some plants are developing from cuttings in her classroom.
Which information could she gather to help her understand how the plant is growing?

Look at the plant below. Is this an example of a flowering or non-flowering plant?

living things make more living things of the same type.

Runners, bulbs and tubers are examples of {{}} reproduction in plants.

A plant that has reproduced and created offspring is called a…

After a flower has been pollinated, {{}} form inside the flower.

characteristics that are a combination of two parent plants.

the same characteristics as the parent plant.

different characteristics to its parent plant.

A clone of a plant is offspring that has…

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