Question

Why is vegetative propagation practised for growing some type of plant?

Answer 1

Hint: Vegetative propagation is much faster than sexual reproduction in plants. This can be done artificially as well, which is widely employed in horticulture. Reproduction is the biological process by which new organisms known as the offspring are produced by their parents.

Complete answer:
Reproduction can be done by two methods: Sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction. The divergence between the two types lies in the number of parents required for both.

Plants reproduce asexually through their vegetative parts such as leaves, roots, stem, and buds. This is known as vegetative propagation. For example - onion bulbs, tubers of the potato, runners/stolon, etc.

Vegetative propagation is performed in the plants which do not have viable seeds or seeds which are dormant. Vegetatively propagated plants have desirable superior traits because it results in producing identical plants.

Plants that need intensive care for the period of the early stages of their development also are vegetatively propagated.

Additional information:
In asexual reproduction, a single parent can give birth to the offspring. Asexual reproduction is normally seen in plants but is less common in the animal kingdom.
In the Sexual type of reproduction in mammals, two parents are mandatory to give rise to the offspring.

Note: Various modes of asexual reproduction in organisms are budding in yeast, fragmentation in spirogyra, spore formation in fungi.
Examples of organisms undergoing regeneration are hydra or planaria.
Vegetative propagation is done usually by roots, by leaf, and by the stem, cutting, layering, and grafting.
Examples of vegetative propagation are banana, rose, jasmine, potato, bryophyllum, money plant, and tissue culture.