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A woman who has blood type A positive has a daughter who is type O positive and a son who is type B negative. Rh positive is a trait that shows simple dominance over Rh negative and is designated by the alleles R and r, respectively. A third gene for the MN blood group has codominant alleles M and N.
-If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeeds in having a single plant with a particularly desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to establishing a line of such plants?

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Cloning the plant asexually would produce an exact copy of the plant with the desirable traits, ensuring that the traits remain consistent in future generations. Backtracking through previous experiments may not guarantee the same desirable traits, and breeding with another plant with weaker traits may dilute the desirable traits. Self-pollination may not result in identical offspring due to genetic variation. Therefore, cloning is the most efficient and probable route to establishing a line of gardenias with the desired traits. However, it should be noted that genetic diversity may decrease over time if only cloning is used for reproduction.

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