Chimera (plant)

Chimera (plant)

Chimeras (or chimaeras) in botany are usually single organisms composed of two genetically different types of tissue. They occur in plants, on the same general basis as with animal chimeras. However, unlike animal chimeras, both types of tissues may have originated from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division.

Read more about Chimera (plant):  Derivation, Types of Plant Chimera, Propagation, Chimeras in Plant Transformation

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