Why are plant cells, as opposed to animal cells, particularly useful as hosts for recombinant DNA?

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Plant cells have more of a capacity to make totipotent stem cells, which can be used to generate entire plants from a single cell, making them particularly useful for recombinant DNA technology. Animal cells, on the other hand, cannot be cultured as easily and lack the capacity to regenerate whole organisms from a single cell. Plant cells do not lack introns and do not have reverse transcriptase as stated in options B and D, respectively.

Why Are Plant Cells, as Opposed to Animal Cells, Particularly