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Botany Basics

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1. The 'eyes' of the Irish potato are actually ___?






2. Ultmately - how is energy moved around and created in living things?






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






4. Which soil horizon is the most important agriculturally?






5. Which of the following drugs is NOT obtained from leaves?






6. Most of the ATP produced in respiration is a result of the movement of H ions across an ATP synthase in the inner membrane of the ____ and is referred to as ____?






7. Specialized epidermal cells that increase the surface area for absorption of water are ____?






8. When a plant is fully saturated with water it is said to be high in ___ pressure wheras if it is low in water the plant is said to be flacid.






9. In nature depletion of mineral nutrients in the soil - interference with plant growth by excluding air - and the acceleration of the breakdown of nitrates in the soil is caused by too much ____?






10. Which of the following is a critical part of a seed providing nutrition for the embryo?






11. The best soil for plant growth is ___?






12. What is attached at the node?






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






14. Specialized roots that permit plants growing in water to facilitate






15. The ground tissue of monocots is composed of ___?






16. The Calvin cycle is sometimes referred to as the ___?






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






18. 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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19. Briefly describe the development of vascular tissu by the lateral/vascular cambium of a stem and how that results in the production of wood?






20. Most of the water that enters a plant via the roots exits the same plant by the process of ____?






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






22. The type of root system found in a dicot is a ___?






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






24. Which of the following is a critical part of a seed providing nutrition for the embryo?






25. The part of the root containing the vascular tissue?






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






27. Which of the following would NOT be part of the stele?






28. Why is an Irish/white potato classified as a modified stem?






29. Photosystem pigments that function in gathering and passing light energy to reaction-center molecules are called ___?






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






31. 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?






32. Stems differ from roots in ____?






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






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






35. The fleshy edible part of the strawberry is actually the ____?






36. When the calyx - corolla and stamen of a flower are attached at the top of the ovary - the ovary is said to be ___?






37. A plant with flowers containing stamens but no carpels would be a ___ plant with ____ flowers?






38. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






39. The main 'job' of the root is ____?






40. A structure in the axil of an attached leaf that is apable of future growth to form a branch shoot is the ____?






41. The parts of a flower that form male gametes are the ____?






42. The initial step in the germination of a seed is called ____?






43. Most of the flesh of pomes comes from the __?






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






45. If the concentration of solutes inside the plant cell is grater than the concentration on the outside - water will move ___?






46. An advantage to tap roots is that they ____?






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






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






49. If the concentration of solutes inside the plant cell is greater than the concentration on the outside - water will _____ the cell?






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