Yes, it may be possible through cloning and stem cell technology. Advantages include disease research and organ replacement. Challenges involve ethical issues, genetic abnormalities, high cost, low success rates and concerns about misuse of biotechnology in animals and humans.
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I would ask whether one tissue can perform multiple functions. Examples include parenchyma storing food and performing photosynthesis, epidermis protecting and reducing water loss and xylem transporting water while also providing support to plants.
Vibha’s statement is incomplete because meristematic tissues are also present as lateral and intercalary meristems. Neha can ask, “How do grasses regrow after cutting or stems increase in girth if meristems exist only at root and shoot tips?”
(i) The plant cell will have a larger vacuole because vacuoles store cell sap and maintain turgidity. (ii) The answer assumes both cells are mature, normal and healthy cells performing their usual biological functions under similar conditions.
Sclerenchyma tissue provides strength to coconut husk fibres because of thick lignified walls. Living parenchyma cells have thin walls and soft structure mainly for storage, so they cannot provide the hardness, toughness and durability needed for mats.