A gardener grows daffodils. Daffodils can reproduce sexually by making seeds. They can also reproduce asexually by growing new bulbs.
Give one advantage to the daffodil of reproducing asexually by growing new bulbs.
Give one advantage to the daffodil of reproducing sexually by making seeds.
A new disease kills every daffodil that has one particular allele. A bed of daffodils has been grown from the bulbs of one plant. Explain why this bed is at greater risk from the disease than a bed grown from seeds.
62 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Biology 6.1 Reproduction, covering 6.1.1 Sexual and asexual reproduction, 6.1.2 Meiosis, 6.1.3 Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction, 6.1.4 DNA and the genome, 6.1.5 DNA structure, 6.1.6 Genetic inheritance, 6.1.7 Inherited disorders, and 6.1.8 Sex determination. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.