Cambridge O Level Biology · Syllabus 5090 · Classification
Flowering Plant
What is Flowering Plant?
A flowering plant is a plant that produces flowers and seeds and contains vascular tissue. Flowering plants are divided into monocotyledons, whose seeds have one cotyledon, and dicotyledons, whose seeds have two.
This definition is part of the Classification chapter in Cambridge O Level Biology.
Flowering Plant in context
Classification is the placing of living organisms into groups on the basis of the features they share, so that organisms with many features in common sit in the same group. Cambridge O Level Biology (5090) Chapter 2 covers four things: the definition of a species and the binomial naming system, dichotomous keys, the five kingdoms (animal, plant, fungus, prokaryote and protoctist), and the observable features that separate the vertebrate groups, the arthropod groups, ferns from flowering plants and monocotyledons from dicotyledons. Viruses sit apart from all five kingdoms because they have no cellular structure.