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Explain the concept of tissue culture.
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Solution
- ‘Ex vivo growth of cells or tissues in an aseptic and nutrient-rich medium’ is called tissue culture.
- Nowadays, a complete organism can be developed from a single cell or from tissue with help of the tissue culture technique.
- A liquid, solid or gel-like medium prepared from agar, which supplies nutrients and energy necessary for tissue culture is used in this technique.
- Its uses are in the production of cash crops, improvement in varieties of cash crops, increase in abilities of plants to withstand environmental stresses, vaccine production, early diagnosis of congenital diseases, organ transplant, cancer research, production of artificial skin, cartilage, etc. in laboratories.
Various processes in tissue-culture
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