Cloning a clone of a clone of a clone

[blackone]

I must admit its been a while since I studied botany and dendro in school, but I thought it was a little bundle of apical cells? I have an image in my head of the apical node all blown up under the disecting scope, and it seems to look like many cells that are spliting rapidly and forming the growing stem.

True, but I'm pretty sure the origin of that bundle is a single cell.

edit: A link about apical cells in ferns, I'll try to see if I can find some more general info.
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mauseth/weblab/webchap6apmer/6.3-1.htm

 

[Guest]

It has to be the RIGHT single cell to form a whole plant, You can grow roots on a leaf, but it won't lead to flowers. But techinaclly, every cell has the information to re-grow itself. I think some can be pre-programed and some may not have all the info.-


Can the "Genome" of the plant be damaged or altered? Are plants that have been near death capible of recovering, or do they loose something?

I've seen a documentry on PBS about what I believe they called the "Exo-genome" which is the gene as it goes thru life and changes. Stresses and disease can turn on or off certain areas - Is it the same for plants?