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Botany Basics

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1. Pollen is produced in the ____ of a flower?






2. Pollen adheres to a sticky portion of the flower called the ___?






3. Sugars produced in photosynthesis are loaded intothe ___ of the leaf?






4. Grasses - or monocots - are examples of plants with a ____ root system?






5. The osmotic response of guard cells is governed by ____ levels in the guard cells?






6. Fungi which associate with roots to increase water absorption and mineral uptake are called ____?






7. Wood cells are composed primarily of cellulose and ___?






8. Explain photorespiration and how the enzyme rubisco plays a major role in that process during photosynthesis?






9. Which molecule is synthesized during the light reactions of photosynthesis by receiving electrons - becoming an eectron carrier molecule?






10. Most of the flesh of pomes comes from the ____?






11. The part of the flower that eventually become seeds are the ___?






12. What does the term 'C'HOPK'NS CaFe Mighty good' represent?






13. What 8 elements are classified as major/macro elements for plant development?






14. As best as you can - briefly describe the development of vascular tissue by the lateral/vascular cambium of a stem and how that results in the production of wood?






15. Which biome has the worst 'A' horizon?






16. Horizontal stems that produce roots and shoots are ___?






17. The best soil for plant growth is ___?






18. Plants maintain a constant flow of water from the roots to the leaves through a process very critical to life on land called ____?






19. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






20. Specialized cells in the vascular tssue of a root responsible for initiating lateral root growth are _____ cells?






21. A conspicuous organelle at the light microscope level in cells of the palisade mesophyll would be ___?






22. Explain how a guard cell opens and closes the stoma?






23. Stems differ from roots in ___?






24. Which of the following is a root with a specialized function for food storage?






25. The part of the flower in which seeds are produced is the ___?






26. Which cell types hav the primary function of photosynthesis?






27. Root hairs are found in the region of the root called the ____?






28. Why do most roots tend to die in soils that contain very high concentrations of salts (or fertilizer)?






29. This tissue/region is present in monocot roots but absent in dicot roots?






30. Cells produced by the vascular cambium do NOT include ___?






31. The part of the flower where seeds are produced is called the ___?






32. A farmer finds that his landin the wetbottoms during an exceptionally wet year produced a very poor crop as most of the plants died. What could've been the problem?

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33. You have a crop that is not doing well and you add a lot of fertilizer to help it out but this causes the crop to do worse. ExplaIn what has happened?






34. At present the most widely accepted theory for movement of substances in the phloem is called the ____?






35. Not a specialized leaf?






36. One year's growth of xylem in secondary wood is referred to as an _____?






37. When the calyx - Corolla - and stamens of a flower are attached at the top of the ovary - the ovary is said to be ____?






38. This cell type is important in monocot and dicot roots by helping to regulate what gets into the ___?






39. Leaves and buds are attached to the stem at the ___?






40. The ___ horizon - also referred to as ____ - is the most imp't agriculturally and deep layers of This is found in the ____ biome?






41. Strawberries are an example of what kind of modified stem?






42. The wood of cone bearing trees - softwoods - consists of primary traechids - while the wood of flowering trees - hardwoods - consists of traechids and ____?






43. The space on a stem between where buds are attache and elongates is referred to as the ____?






44. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






45. An example of a multiple fruit would be the ___?






46. Which of the following is a specialized leaf?






47. These 'showy' modified leaves are found at the base of flowers and usually draw attention to the smaller real flowers?






48. In a mature - woody dicot stem - the tissue between the xylem and phloem is the ____?






49. The discrete paches of xylem and phloem found in herbaceous dicot stems are called ____?






50. Which of the following drugs are NOT obtained from leaves?