Aren’t plants considered asexual? If yes, how do they make plants have sex?
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Plants are sexual. Seed plants “have sex” through pollination. In some plants the sexes of whole organisms are separate. Some plants have separate male and female flowers. Some have flowers with both male (stamens) and female (pistil) organs. Some plants generally pollinate themselves (like wheat), while most avoid self-pollination in one way or the other. But even with self-pollinating plants you can still do a cross-pollination if that is what you want.
Breeders can use various techniques to create new breeds of plants: selection (taking the part of population that has desired traits for further breeding), speeding up mutation (e.g. with radioactive materials), hybridization (using techniques that allow for breeding two different species, that would not normally breed) or even directed manipulation of DNA (GMO).
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