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Botany Basics

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1. 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 ____?






2. An example of an aggregate fruit would be the ___?






3. Not a specialized leaf?






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






5. Stoma are regulated by guard cells which swell or shrink due to movement of this specific ion in the stomata?






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






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






8. Which of the following is a specialized root for storage?






9. The major regions of a root tip are ____ - ___ - _____ and _____?






10. Why is visible light good energy to use for photsynthesis?

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11. When the calyx - corolla - and stamen of a flower are attached below the overy - the ovary is said to be ___?






12. Fruit forms from the ovary wall of a flower referred to a the ___?






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






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






15. White the basic chemical equation for photosynthesis indicating which parts are for the light dependent stage and which are part of the light independent stage?






16. Pollen adheres to a sticky portion of the flower called the ____?






17. Pressure that develops within a living cell as the result of water entering the cell is called ___?






18. Not a specialized stem?






19. Stems differ from roots in ___?






20. Name the 4 parts of aflower and briefly explain the process of double fertilization?






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






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






23. Roots differ from stems in ___?






24. 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?






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






26. Flowers are usually attached to a special structure at the end of a stem or peduncle called a ___?






27. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






28. Explain why a cucumber or tomato really should be referred to as a fruit?






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






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






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






32. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






33. The final electron acceptor during the process of cellular respiration is ___?






34. What is attached at the node?






35. Which of the following is part of the embryo of the seed?






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






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






38. When humidity is low - ____ ?






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






40. The oxygen liberated by green plants during photosynthesis comes from ___?






41. 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 ____?






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






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






44. The osmotic response of guard cells is governed by the ___ levels in the guard cells?






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






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






47. The fungi symbiotically associated with roots are called ___?






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






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






50. The areas between the location of leaf attachments on the stem are called ___?







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