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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
0610/23
May/June 2013
Paper 2 Core
1 hour 15 minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES.
Answer all questions.
Electronic calculators may be used.
You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use appropriate units.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
Flowering plants are classified into two groups, the monocotyledons and the eudicotyledons
(dicotyledons).
(a) Complete Table 1.1 to show differences between these two groups.
Table 1.1 monocotyledons eudicotyledons
number of cotyledons in seed pattern of veins in leaf number of flower parts e.g. petals
[4]
(b) State two environmental stimuli that flowering plants can detect.
1
2
[2]
(c) Fig. 1.1 shows a cross section of part of a eudicotyledonous (dicotyledonous) plant as seen through a microscope.
Fig. 1.1
(i) Name the part of a plant through which the section has been cut.
[1]
(ii) On Fig. 1.1, draw a line to label the phloem tissue and a line to label the xylem tissue. Label the phloem and xylem tissues.
