The unit in one line
The tissues a plant is built from, and how they are arranged in the root, stem and leaf. 3 of Botany's 40 questions over two chapters, nearly all of them comparisons.
Read in this order
- Plant tissues (8 min) — meristems, simple and complex permanent tissues, and the vascular bundle types with a plant for each.
- Anatomy of root, stem and leaf (9 min) — dicot against monocot in every organ, and an outline of secondary growth. Read after tissues: every section is described in their terms.
About 17 minutes in all.
How it is asked
MEC sets the paper roughly half recall, a third understanding and a fifth application. Recall here is which tissue lacks companion cells or where a bicollateral bundle occurs. Understanding is why a root has radial bundles with exarch xylem. Application is a described section (scattered bundles, no cambium, bulliform cells) to name the organ and the group.
Then practise
Each chapter has a fixed-length chapter test under Practice › Topics, drawn from questions written to that chapter's scope. Sit it after reading; a second sitting a week later shows whether it stuck.