Strawberry plants can reproduce in two ways:
Give one difference between asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.
A farmer has a strawberry plant that produces large, sweet strawberries.
Explain why she grows new plants from its runners rather than from its seeds.
All the strawberry plants on the farm were grown from the runners of the same plant.
A new disease of strawberry plants arrives in the area.
Explain why this is a risk for the farmer.
Greenfly are insects that feed on plants. In summer, when there is plenty of food, greenfly reproduce asexually. In autumn, they reproduce sexually.
Suggest one advantage to greenfly of reproducing asexually in summer.
186 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Biology 5.1 Inheritance, covering 5.1.1 The genome, 5.1.2 Environment and phenotype, 5.1.3 Variants and mutations, 5.1.4 How genetic variants influence phenotype, 5.1.5 Asexual and sexual reproduction, 5.1.6 Haploid and diploid, 5.1.7 Meiotic cell division, 5.1.8 Single gene inheritance, 5.1.9 Predicting single gene crosses, 5.1.10 Sex determination, 5.1.11 Multiple gene inheritance, and 5.1.12 Development of our understanding of genetics. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.