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Glossary
Every word the labs use, with the definition it is examined on. The short list at the foot of each station is only the words that are new there.
Cells Lab
Cambridge IGCSE Biology 0610 · Topic 2, Organisation of the organism: 2.1 cell structure, 2.2 size of specimens
In one minute
Choose a station on the bar along the bottom. Each station has its own picture on the left: a microscope to use, a cell to enlarge, real cells to observe. Press a part of the picture and its card opens on the right; open a card and its part shows in the picture.
Each station has two tabs: Learn, what you must know, with something to press, drag or watch, and Practise, the questions.
Check as often as you like. You are told which parts are wrong, never the answer: you must find it yourself. Try again until every part is right.
An underlined word can be pressed: ↗ takes you to the station that explains it, with a button to return here, and a faint dotted line opens the definition.
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What the colours mean
In the text:violet words are the parts of a cell; blue words are about size, magnification and the microscope; amber words are about how cells are organised into tissues, organs and organisms, and about specialised cells.
A box with a red border is the mistake students most often make there. A small S badge means Supplement (Extended papers 2 and 4 only). What you need to know holds only what the syllabus for exams in 2026–2029 asks: Cambridge’s syllabus for 2029 is word for word the same as the one for 2026–2028. Everything else is in the card directly below it, “Not in the syllabus for 2026–2029”: first what an older 0610 syllabus had, with a badge, then what is beyond the syllabus. Do not skip it: an exam question can still use these ideas, and knowing them can be what earns you full marks.
The sources of the content and the pictures
The definitions are the wording of the syllabus for 2026–2029, and every function of a cell part is worded as the Cambridge mark schemes credit it.
Every picture is a real photograph or a published drawing, credited under it and listed in full below and in assets/photos/CREDITS.md.