CAIE IGCSE Biology 1.3.5 Main Features Used to Place Organisms Questions

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

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
distinguish ferns from flowering plants using spores/fronds versus flowers, pollen or seeds

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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

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

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