Small pieces of root tissue are taken from an oil palm tree and placed in a nutrient medium. Each small piece produces a new oil palm tree. Which type of reproduction is this and how do the genotypes of the new trees compare with that of the parent tree?
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B: type of reproduction: asexual, genotype: identical
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