One plant, root to fruitEvery plant topic, on one bean
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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.
Plants Lab
Cambridge IGCSE Biology 0610 · Topic 6 plant nutrition, Topic 8 transport in plants, 14.5 tropic responses, 16.3 sexual reproduction in plants, 18.2 adaptive features
In one minute
Click any part of the plant, or any step on the bar along the bottom. The stations run from the seed under the soil to the fruit at the top, and the plant lights the part each one is about.
Each station has two tabs: Learn — what you must know, with something to press, drag or watch in every section — and Practise, the questions.
Check as often as you like. You are told which parts are wrong, never the answer — you have to work it out. Keep going until it is all right. Signed in, your work is saved for Dr Mompel on its own — there is nothing to press at the end.
An underlined word can be clicked: 🔍 opens a picture there and then, ↗ jumps to the station that explains it and brings you back, and a faint dotted line opens the definition.
Your work is kept in this browser and, once you sign in with your school account, sent to Dr Mompel’s records on its own as you go — there is nothing to hand in. Signed in, it follows you to another computer.
The answers are never shown. Sign in with your school Google account so Dr Mompel knows whose work it is; it is then sent to his records as you go. Anyone else is welcome to use the lab — their work simply stays in their own browser.
What the colours mean
Blue words are about water and transport — xylem, root hairs, transpiration. Amber words are photosynthesis and the food it makes — chlorophyll, glucose, phloem, sucrose. Rose words are reproduction — the parts of a flower, pollen, seed, fruit. Violet words are growth and adaptation — tropisms, auxin, xerophytes.
The plant on the left lights in the same colours: blue sap running up the stem is water in the xylem, amber sap is sugar in the phloem.
A green-bordered box is the mistake students most often make there. A small S badge means Supplement (Extended papers 2 and 4 only). “Beyond the syllabus” is not named in 0610: it helps the rest make sense, and an exam question can still use it. 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, so the list serves every student sitting the exams from 2026 to 2029. Press the IGCSE 0610 badge and choose your year: it shows the year of your exams and your syllabus. Everything else is in the card right below the list, “Not in the syllabus for 2026–2029”: first what an older 0610 syllabus had, with a badge such as “old syllabus · until 2015” — past papers may ask it, so tap the badge to read the old statement and whether recent papers still give marks for it — then what is beyond the syllabus, there to help the rest make sense. Do not skip it: an exam question can still use these ideas, and knowing them can be what earns you full marks.
The colour key sits at the top of every Learn tab, so you never have to remember.
What is simplified here
The plant is a bean — a dicotyledon — because that is the plant the syllabus sections are drawn from. A grass or a conifer would look different inside.
The interactive graphs are models with the exam’s shapes, not measurements from a real leaf.
The pollen tube animation shows one nucleus fusing with one; the second fusion real flowering plants make (the endosperm) is left out: the syllabus does not include it.
The cactus and the water lily stand for all xerophytes and hydrophytes; the syllabus asks for the features, not the species.
Where the content and the pictures come from
The definitions are the wording of the syllabus for 2026–2029. Where the slides use an older wording it is given in brackets.
The stations follow Dr Mompel's own Year 11 plant lessons — Topic 6, Topic 8, 14.5, 16.3 and 18.2 — and most of the pictures and the lesson videos are the ones shown in those lessons.
The micrographs of the stem, the root and the leaf are from the Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library on Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Every other picture is credited under it and listed in full below and in assets/photos/CREDITS.md.
All questions, the plant, the drawings and the page design are original to this lab.