A level biology question

can someone help me with question ci and ii

can someone help me with question ci and ii

No idea what your markscheme requires, but

i) cutting elms near ground level stimulates the roots to throw up many new suckers and rapidly form a thick growth of new shoots. If left to grow, they can form a bush-like thicket, which may result in several harvestable shoots, suitable for uses like fencing. This is called coppicing. If artificially thinned, so as to leave just a single coppice shoot, that remaining new growth will eventually replace the old main trunk.

ii) Dutch Elm disease is caused by a fungus carried by the elm bark beetle. After a fire or storm, the elm is structurally damaged, but can recover through vegetative growth. This new growth is no more vulnerable to further fire or storm damage than the parent stem. But since vegetative propagation does not change the genetic make-up of the new growths (they are simply outgrowths of the parent stock), the new growth will be just as vulnerable to further infection by the Dutch elm fungus as the parent. What's more, the vegetative shoots are still connected to the parent trunk, and the fungus and/or the beetle vector are very likely to still be present in the parent stem, or in nearby trees, so the chance that the new growth will be infected is very high.

excellent answers.. for the ci, my text book says ''elm tree is a plant that uses suckers. these are shoots that grow from sucker buds present on the shallow roots of a parent plant''
would that be sufficient? this is what the markscheme says
''root suckers / basal sprouts ; from , meristem / undifferentiated , tissue ; grow , up around / in circle / between , felled trees ; correct ref. to time ; ''
It also says ignore reference to genetics, what does that mean?

Thanks. I'm afraid I know nothing about markschemes, and what you quote just sounds like a word salad to me. It would be a pure guess to speculate that "correct ref to time" could refer to the idea that the suckers are thrown up after the parent is felled, and takes time to mature to harvestable timber??? Likewise, "ignore reference to genetics" may just mean that it is of no significance to the allocation of marks to mention that shoots produced from suckers are genetically identical to the parent plant. That's fair enough for c) i, but not for c) ii anyway. But what do I know?

Thanks a lot anyway
Can I ask one more question?
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