cutting

(noun)

placing part of a stem containing nodes or internodes in water or moist soil in order to produce new plants

Related Terms

  • grafting
  • layering
  • micropropagation

Examples of cutting in the following topics:

  • Natural and Artificial Methods of Asexual Reproduction in Plants

    • Some plants can be propagated through cuttings alone.
    • They include grafting, cutting, layering, and micropropagation.
    • Both are cut at an oblique angle (any angle other than a right angle), placed in close contact with each other, and are then held together.
    • Plants such as coleus and money plant are propagated through stem cuttings where a portion of the stem containing nodes and internodes is placed in moist soil and allowed to root.
  • Molecular and Cellular Cloning

    • The MCS is a short DNA sequence containing multiple sites that can be cut with different commonly-available restriction endonucleases.
    • Restriction endonucleases recognize specific DNA sequences and cut them in a predictable manner; they are naturally produced by bacteria as a defense mechanism against foreign DNA.
    • Many restriction endonucleases make staggered cuts in the two strands of DNA, such that the cut ends have a 2- or 4-base single-stranded overhang.
    • In this way, any DNA fragment generated by restriction endonuclease cleavage can be spliced between the two ends of a plasmid DNA that has been cut with the same restriction endonuclease .
  • Body Plans

    • Radial symmetry describes an animal with an up-and-down orientation: any plane cut along its longitudinal axis through the organism produces equal halves, but not a definite right or left side.
    • The goat also has an upper and lower component to it, but a plane cut from front to back separates the animal into definite right and left sides.
  • Blue Light Response

    • He cut off the tip of a seedling, covered the cut section with a permeable layer of gelatin, and then replaced the tip.
    • However, when impermeable mica flakes were inserted between the tip and the cut base, the seedling did not bend.
  • Other Neurological Disorders

    • There are several other neurological disorders that cannot be easily placed into clean-cut categories.
  • Mutualistic Relationships with Fungi and Fungivores

    • In a second example, leaf-cutting ants of Central and South America literally farm fungi.
    • They cut disks of leaves from plants and pile them up in gardens.
  • DNA Repair

    • If an incorrect base has been added, the enzyme makes a cut at the phosphodiester bond and releases the incorrect nucleotide.
    • In another type of repair mechanism, nucleotide excision repair, enzymes replace incorrect bases by making a cut on both the 3' and 5' ends of the incorrect base .
  • Genome Evolution

    • These mechanisms work similarly to "cut-and-paste" and "copy-and-paste" functionalities in word processing programs.
    • The "cut-and-paste" mechanism works by excising DNA from one place in the genome and inserting itself into another location in the code.
  • Genetic Maps

    • RFLPs (sometimes pronounced "rif-lips") are detected when the DNA of an individual is cut with a restriction endonuclease that recognizes specific sequences in the DNA to generate a series of DNA fragments, which are then analyzed by gel electrophoresis.
    • The DNA of every individual will give rise to a unique pattern of bands when cut with a particular set of restriction endonucleases; this is sometimes referred to as an individual's DNA "fingerprint."
  • Animal Body Planes and Cavities

    • This is sometimes called a cross section; if the transverse cut is at an angle, it is called an oblique plane .
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