Questions

Q1.

Plants and animals can reproduce asexually and sexually.

(a) Give an example of a way that plants can reproduce asexually.
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(b) Complete the table showing features of sexual reproduction in plants and animals.
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(c) Suggest why the number and size of human male gametes differs from the number
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(Total for question = 6 marks)

Q2.

Read the passage below. Use the information in the passage and your own knowledge to answer the
questions that follow.

Poisonous ragwort
(a) What is meant by the term insect-pollinated (line 1)?
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(b) Give one feature of ragwort flowers, mentioned in the passage, that indicates they are pollinated by
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(c) Explain how the feeding behaviour of many insect larvae affects the growth of a ragwort plant (lines 3
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(d) Suggest why it might be a risk to introduce cinnabar moths into other countries (line 6).
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(e) Explain how natural selection could have resulted in cinnabar moths that are not killed by the poison
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(f) Explain why a cloudy cornea can cause blindness (line 11).
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(g) Calculate the mass of ragwort that a 520 kg horse would have to eat to become poisoned and die
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mass of ragwort = ........................................................... kg

(h) Name the blood vessel that transports the poison from a horse's intestine to its liver.
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(i) Ragwort seeds need to be stimulated by light in order to germinate (line 19).
Give one other factor that seeds need in order to germinate.
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(j) Suggest why the size of the ragwort population can be reduced if farm animals are kept out of fields
where ragwort grows (lines 22 and 23).
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(Total for question = 18 marks)

Q3.

Plants can reproduce sexually or asexually.

Plants that reproduce sexually can be pollinated by insects or by wind.

(a) State three ways in which the structure of insect-pollinated flowers differs from the structure of wind-
pollinated flowers.
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(b) The diagram shows a flower from a plant.

Name the structures labelled on the diagram.

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(c) The flower in the diagram is insect-pollinated.

An insect carrying pollen lands on the flower.
Describe the events that lead to seed formation.
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 (Total for question = 11 marks)

Q4.

Plants can reproduce sexually and produce seeds.

These seeds can remain dormant for long periods of time before germination takes place.

(a) What is meant by the term germination?

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(b) Explain three conditions needed for seeds to germinate.

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(Total for question = 7 marks)

Q5.

The diagram shows two different types of flower.

(a) Use the diagram to explain which of these flowers is insect-pollinated.
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(b) Fertilisation may occur after a flower has been pollinated.

The table lists six stages in the process of plant reproduction.
Put numbers in the boxes to show the order of the stages.
The last stage has been done for you.
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(Total for question = 7 marks)

Mark Scheme
Q1.

Q2.
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 (Total for question = 11 marks)

Q4.
 (Total for question = 7 marks)

Q5.