Question

Assertion (A): Somatic embryos can be formed from any cell in plant tissue culture.

Reason (R): Any living plant cell is capable of differentiating into somatic embryos.

Options

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are false.

Answer 1

Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

Explanation:

Plant cells are totipotent and, under suitable culture conditions, a living plant cell can differentiate and regenerate. This capacity allows somatic embryos to develop from cultured plant cells.