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Aim:
To raise a new generation of plant from watermelon and potato.
Materials required: Two pots with soil, potato, watermelon seeds and water.
Procedure:
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.
Observation:
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.
Inference:
a. Watermelon plants were produced from .
b. Potato plant is produced from .
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.
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