22. Intext activity I

  

To raise a new generation of plant from watermelon and potato.

 

Materials required:Two pots with soil, potato, watermelon seeds and water.

 

 

Fill both pots with soil mixed with compost or manure. Take young potato. Ensure that it is not dried up and the skin still looks fresh. Bury a potato in one part. Sow watermelon seeds in another pot. Pour water regularly and maintain the plant.

 

After few days, we can see single plant arising from a buried potato. Plants arise from the pot sowed with watermelon seeds. Each seed produces a plant.

 

a. Watermelon plants were produced from seedsstem tuber.

 

b. Potato plant is produced from stem tuberseeds.

 

c. Seed is not only the source for new generation, even vegetative part of a plant can also be used to produce a new plant. FalseTrue