Discussion
The capacity to generate a whole plant from a cell or an explant is called:-
Answer: B
The capacity is totipotency.
Totipotency is the ability of a single plant cell or tissue piece (an explant) to divide and differentiate into a complete plant. It is the basis of plant tissue culture and micropropagation, in which whole plants are raised from small pieces of tissue on a nutrient medium.
Somatic hybridization is the fusion of protoplasts from two different plants, and hydroponics and aeroponics are ways of growing plants without soil, in nutrient solution or mist. None describes a cell's ability to form a whole plant.
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