What is the potential or inherent capacity of a plant cell or tissue to develop into an entire plant called? (RJ ACF Horti. 2018)

✅Explanation:
Totipotency is the ability of a single cell to develop into a complete organism. This means that a single cell from a plant can be cultured and grown into a new plant. This is a fundamental concept in plant tissue culture and has many applications in agriculture and horticulture.

📌 Other option explanations:
Option A: Tissue culture is a technique for growing plant cells and tissues in a sterile environment. It is not the name for the potential of a cell to develop into a whole plant.
Option D: Transcription is the process of copying DNA into RNA. It is not related to the development of a plant from a single cell.

🔑Key Points:
-Tissue culture is the method of culturing plant or animal cells, tissue, or organ in vitro.
-Here the isolated part from the target plant or animal is grown in a sterile liquid nutrient medium under controlled conditions of light, humidity, and temperature. Usually carried out in a glass container.
-Tissue culture is based on the principle of totipotency – an inherent ability of living plant or animal cells to grow, divide, redivide and give rise to a whole organism.
-​In the case of a plant tissue culture, an explant is any part of the plant that is taken out and grown in a sterile condition in a special nutrient medium.
-This part of the plant can give rise to a whole plant.
-Thus, the explant is a part of the plant used in tissue culture. 
-The part of the plant that can be used as an explant is the leaf, stem, root, petiole, hypocotyl, cotyledon, embryo, and meristem.