Assertion (A): Characteristics of parental plants can be preserved through asexual reproduction.
Reason (R): Vegetative reproduction involves only mitosis.
Answer:
In asexual reproduction, certain body cells of the parent organism undergo repeated mitotic cell divisions to form two or more new organisms which are genetically identical to the parent organism.
Thus,
- Assertion is true.
- Reasoning is true.
So, the correct answer is (a).
