plumiCloning in plants: OCR A‑Level Biology A questions
OCR A-Level Biology A past-paper questions on 6.2.1.1 Cloning in plants, 2016–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 18 questions on Cloning in plants, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q8 (1 mark): Plants can be cloned by taking cuttings. New cuttings often experience water stress during the first few weeks. Which of these practical procedures are used to
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q10 (1 mark): Plants can be cloned artificially by taking cuttings. Which of the following are important steps when cloning a plant by taking a cutting? 1 Keep it regularly w
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q6(a) (4 marks): Describe how artificial clones of plants are produced using micropropagation. [4]
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q6(c)(i) (2 marks): State the name of structure X and outline how a gardener could produce many cloned plants from structure X. [2]
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q6(c)(ii) (2 marks): State the name of structure Y and describe the process by which a new plant can form naturally from structure Y. [2]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q16(c) (6 marks): Many organisms undergo asexual reproduction by mitosis. (c)* Asexual reproduction is also known as cloning. Many organisms can be artificially cloned for commer
- June 2022, Paper 3, Q3(a) (3 marks): A student wrote a method for taking a cutting to clone a plant: • Select a stem with many flowers and leaves. • Make a slanting cut in the stem, below some leav
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21(a) (1 mark): Strawberry plants produce clones using runners. This is an example of natural cloning. State one other method of natural cloning in plants. [1]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21(b) (1 mark): Name the type of plant tissue from which natural clones are produced. [1]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21(c) (2 marks): Tissue culture greatly increases the number of cloned plants that can be produced from a single parent plant. Outline how it is possible to produce many clones
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21(d)(i) (2 marks): Calculate the percentage increase in mean shoot length caused by adding 5 mg dm–3 BAP. Give your answer to 2 significant figures. Percentage increase = % [2]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21(d)(ii) (3 marks): The valid investigation that generated the results shown above featured an independent variable, a dependent variable and several controlled variables. State th
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q20(a)(i) (4 marks): Describe how to clone a plant by taking a cutting. [4]
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q20(a)(ii) (6 marks): Plant cloning is often used by farmers to produce new plants. A plant that is often cloned by taking cuttings is lavender, Lavandula angustifolia. (ii)* The far
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q20(b) (3 marks): Cloning plants is also known as vegetative propagation. Identify three advantages of vegetative propagation in agriculture. 1 2 3 [3]
- June 2018, Paper 3, Q3(c) (4 marks): Scientists are able to clone desirable plants that show a high rate of photosynthesis. The following passage describes how plants are cloned. Complete the passa
- June 2017, Paper 2, Q18(b)(i) (2 marks): Suggest why it is important to use clones in an investigation such as this. [2]
- June 2017, Paper 2, Q18(b)(ii) (2 marks): State how a clone of potatoes could be produced for this investigation and explain why it is important to carry out this procedure under aseptic conditions. pro
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