i) Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction in plants.

ii) In this mode of reproduction, parts of the parent plant, like the root, stem, leaf etc are used to grow a new plant. Sexual reproductive parts are not involved in the propagation of the plants.

Advantages:

i) Plants like bananas, grapes etc which are seedless can be efficiently reproduced via vegetative propagation.

ii) The plants produced through vegetative propagation are genetically identical to their parent plant.

Disadvantages:

i) Since vegetative propagation produces genetically identical plants, no variations can be seen and this sometimes makes the plants more susceptible to diseases.

ii) New desirable traits arising due to genetic variation cannot be achieved.