A gardener buys a single spider plant. Spider plants reproduce asexually by growing plantlets on long arching stems, and each plantlet can root to form a new plant. A year later the gardener has more than forty spider plants.
Explain why this method of reproduction allows one spider plant to give rise to so many plants in a year.
92 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Biology 3.1 Reproduction and meiosis, covering 3.1.1 Advantages and disadvantages of reproduction and 3.1.2 Role of meiotic cell division. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.