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Subject: Do telomeres also functions as biological clock in plants?

Date: Thu Apr 18 20:36:31 2002
Posted by Jose L. Reyes
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Manila State/Province: No state entered. Country: Philippines
Area of science: Botany
ID: 1019176591.Bt
Message:

Do telomeres also functions as biological clock in plants (i.e. trees)?
A clone animal biological age is the nuclear donors age plus his/her age.
This is because length of the telomeres of the nuclear donor is also 
transmitted to the clone?
Cloning plants (i.e. trees) is a less complicated procedure, you cut a branch 
and plant in a good soil or environment.
Will the clone plant have the same biological age as the source plant?
Granting the plant grows in a favorable environment and nurtured regularly, 
will there come a time that it will eventually die as animals do?
Does the plant cells stop replicating to a certain point?
I also wonder why grass are perrenial.  Do they proliferate by sexual 
reproduction or by cloning?



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