Question

Strawberry plants can reproduce several ways. A strawberry plant's main stem is called a crown. This crown produces spirals of leaves, runners, and flowers. The flowers become the strawberries that we love to eat. When days are long and warm, the plant produces runners. Runners are offshoots of the parent plant, sometimes called stolons. These runners are stems growing out from the crown along the ground. The runners grow roots and along the runner, "daughter plants" can develop. Most commercial strawberry growers use runners to produce new plants. Runners are a type of ___________ reproduction in strawberry plants.

Answer 1

Answer: Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction which involves a single parent which produces offsprings. This mode of reproduction do not require gamete formation. This occurs in simple organisms. The offsprings produce by this method are the clone of their parents which means they exhibit same characteristics. Vegetative reproduction is a type of asexual reproduction. In this method plants are grown by utilizing their parts. Runner is the vegetative part of strawberry which provides support to the strawberry plant by acquiring more space on the soil surface. These runners develop new roots and are responsible for the growth of new daughter plants. Plants are generating from a single part plant by utilizing vegetative part. Hence, runners are a type of asexual reproduction in strawberry plants.

Answer 2

Asexual reproduction. This is mainly because the runner comes from one parent thus there is no genetic diversity in the offspring. They are clones.