plumiSelective breeding: Edexcel GCSE Combined Science questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Combined Science exam question on Selective breeding (specification points 4.8), 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 11 questions on Selective breeding, as a list
- June 2025, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q3(b)(i) (2 marks): Complete the sentences using words from the box. (2) medicine zygotes generations kingdoms characteristics domains Selective breeding involves choosing parents
- June 2025, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q3(b)(ii) (1 mark): Suggest one feature of a banana that could be improved by selective breeding. (1)
- June 2024, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q3(a) (3 marks): Describe how selective breeding has produced chickens that lay large numbers of eggs. (3)
- June 2023, Biology Paper 1 Higher, Q4(b) (2 marks): Describe how selective breeding can be used to produce a large population of animals that are not closely related. (2)
- June 2023, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q2(b)(i) (2 marks): Use words from the box to complete the sentences. (2) asexual characteristics evidence ideas inherited selective Animals with the most desirable were bred toget
- June 2023, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q2(b)(iii) (1 mark): Give one advantage of domesticating animals. (1)
- November 2021, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q2(b) (2 marks): Figure 2 shows some information about two types of cattle. survival in high type of cattle meat quality temperatures Brahman good poor Shorthorn poor good Figur
- November 2021, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q2(c) (2 marks): Figure 3 shows the leaf of a wheat plant with a fungal disease. (Source: © Kazakov Maksim/Shutterstock) Figure 3 Give two benefits of breeding wheat plants that
- November 2020, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q3(a)(i) (3 marks): Explain how farmers have used selective breeding to produce larger chickens. (3)
- November 2020, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q3(a)(ii) (2 marks): Describe one benefit and one risk of selectively breeding chickens. (2) benefit risk
- June 2018, Biology Paper 1 Foundation, Q6(b) (6 marks): Figure 11 shows two varieties of potato plant. flowers potatoes Variety A Variety B • large potatoes • small potatoes • few potatoes • many potatoes • slow grow
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