A grower has one plant with desirable characteristics and wants to produce a large number of plants for planting. The grower can use sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction. Conditions remain favourable while the plants are being produced. A new disease may reach the planting stock.
Suggest which method of reproduction the grower should use to produce the plants rapidly, and explain the likely effect if the new disease reaches the planting stock.
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.