Cultivar

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cultivar

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the developmental pathways?Includes selective breeding, hybridization, mutation induction, and vegetative propagation
2. What is the regulatory framework?Governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
3. How do people create a new cultivar?People pick a plant that has a good trait, then grow more of it by breeding or cloning. They can cross‑pollinate, cut a piece, or use tissue to keep the trait.
4. Why are cultivars important for food and gardens?Cultivars help farmers grow more food, make plants that resist disease, and give gardens many colorful options. They let us eat more with less land.

Selective Breeding: The process of choosing and breeding organisms with specific desirable traits to produce offspring.
Asexual Reproduction: Reproduction of a new plant from a single parent, resulting in offspring genetically identical to the parent.
Genetic Diversity: The total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species or population.