Actually, a potato is asexual. Normally plants need two parents. With asexual reproduction, there is only one parent plant.
Hey! A potato! does it reproduce sexually too?
Potatoes undergo vegetative propagation.
- Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction where a new plant grows from a part of a parent plant, such as a stem, root, or leaf. The offspring are genetically identical to the parent plant.
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That was really interesting, Chris! I never knew there were two kinds of reproduction!
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