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Cellular totipotency was demonstrated by
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- Theodore Schwann
- A.V. Leeuwenhoek
- F.C. Steward
- Robert Hooke
Correct Option: C
F.C. Steward & co-workers in 1964 raised the entire carrot plant from carrotroot culture. They established the cellular totipotency i.e. capacity of a cell to develop a new plant. However the idea of totipotency was given earlier by German botanist Gottlieb Haberlandt. He tried to grow isolated leaf cell but could not succeed.