If a Horticulturist Breeding Gardenias Succeeds in Having a Single

Multiple Choice

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?

A) backtracking through her previous experiments to obtain another plant with the same traits
B) breeding this plant with another plant with much weaker traits
C) cloning the plant
D) forcing the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one
E) adding nitrogen to the soil of the offspring of this plant so the desired traits continue