CAIE IGCSE Biology 16.1.3 Asexual Reproduction: Advantages & Disadvantages
Practise evaluating asexual reproduction in wild populations and crop production through speed, uniformity, variation and disease.
- Syllabus
- 2026–2028
- Course
- Biology 0610
Exam points
- explain rapid reproduction without mates, gametes, pollinators or fertilisation
- link identical crop offspring to reliable retention of desirable characteristics
- link low genetic variation to poor adaptation and whole-population disease susceptibility
16.1.3—Advantages and disadvantages question 1
Fig. 2.1 is a photograph of a spider plant, Chlorophytum comosum. Spider plants can reproduce by producing an identical plantlet, which grows away from the single parent plant.
Fig. 2.1
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction in a population of spider plants in the wild.
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