Baby groot is created from a cutting of Groot, an ambulant alien plant who dies at the end of the 1st Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
Geeks are hotly debating whether he is a ‘son’ of Groot or just Groot living on.
Botanist to the rescue...
Plants, unlike most animals, retain their stem cells through their lives. So cloning them is super easy.
Baby Groot is therefore a perfect genetic clone of Big Groot.
(Unless, of course, Baby groot was actually grown from the pollen/spores/seeds emitted by Groot in the crash landing scene?)
However, as many (most?) plants are simultaneously male and female, it is highly likely that we all have our pronouns wrong here!
If Baby groot is a cutting, it is likely it retains Big Groot’s memories!😱
Congrats! You are even more of a geek than me. 🌿🌴🔬
AND as plants can be grafted together w/o tissue rejection (like the diff blossoms in the below pic) the Baby Groots could be stitched together to make a MEGA GROOT!