Grafting is a technique where two different plants are united to grow as one. This is an example of which propagation method?

• A. Asexual propagation
• B. Sexual propagation
• C. Separation
• D. Division

Answer: (A)

Grafting is a vegetative method that reproduces a plant without seeds, producing a clone of the original. In grafting, a piece from one plant (the scion) is joined to the root system of another plant (the rootstock), and they grow together as a single plant. Because the new plant comes from tissue rather than seeds and is genetically essentially the same as the parent, this is asexual propagation. Sexual propagation would involve seeds and genetic variation, not cloning. Other methods like separation or division involve taking apart an existing plant to make new ones, not uniting two plants, so they aren’t the same kind of propagation as grafting.