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Question:...of taking cuttings from plants and tissue culture. Thanks people x I mean, what are the advantages and disadvantages of cuttings. What are the advantages and disadvantages of tissue culture? Sorry ...

Answers:Advantages: Grafting has been important in flowering research. Leaves or shoots from plants induced to flower can be grafted onto uninduced plants and transmit a floral stimulus that induces them to flower. The transmission of plant viruses has been studied using grafting. Virus indexing involves grafting a symptom-less plant that is suspected of carrying a virus onto an indicator plant that is very susceptible to the virus. Disadvantages: It can lead to the spread of alien plant species, resulting in the alien species growing out of control and becoming a pest. The advantages and disadvantages of tissue cell culture are: Advantage: The tissue cells are easily manipulated. Disadvantage: Can't think of any!! Tissue cultures are great!!

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Answers:Advantages Controlled physiochemical environment (pH, temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, osmotic pressure, etc.) Controlled and defined physiological conditions (constitution of medium, etc.) Homogeneity of cell types (achieved through serial passages) Disadvantage Expertise is needed 10 times more expensive for the same quantity of animal tissue Unstable aneuploid chromosome constitution Requirement of controlled and defined physiological conditions

Question:of tissue culture and the moral issues of doing it

Answers:Advantages: research with human tissue will give more direct data than studying an animal and relating it to how the human condition is expected to be. Disadvantages: expensive and problematic. Tissue cultures are difficult to maintain and keep alive. The cells don't react exactly as they do when still inside a body. Moral issues: Is tissue cultures morally better than animal studies? Should people get paid for donating tissue to research? Should they get paid more, if the research makes the scientist rich and famous?

Question:what are they both what are the advantages and disadvantages of using each one plz describe

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