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CAIE IGCSE Biology 1.3.5 Ferns, Monocots & Dicots

Practise identifying ferns, monocotyledons and dicotyledons from specimens or diagrams by using fronds, spores, cotyledons, leaf veins, roots and flower parts.

Syllabus
2026–2028
Course
Biology 0610

Exam points

  • recognise monocots from one cotyledon, parallel veins, fibrous roots and flower parts in threes
  • recognise dicots from two cotyledons, broad leaves with branching veins and flower parts in fours or fives

1.3.5—Main features used to place organisms question 1

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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

Fig. 2.1

Identify one feature in Fig. 2.1 that shows that spider plants are monocotyledons.

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