Tissue culture technique can produce infinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of the technique is in raising (KN NEET 2014)

(A)genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
(B)homozygous diploid plants
(C)new species
(D)variants through picking up somaclonal variations.

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Each of these plants will be genetically identical to the original plant from which they were grown, i.e., they are **somaclones**.

Chapter: Biotechnology and its Applications
Section: 10.1 BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE
Page: 1
Words matched: 21 of 21

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states 'Each of these plants will be genetically identical to the original plant', which directly matches option A's description of 'genetically uniform population identical to the original parent'.

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