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Botany Basics

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1. In which region would an ntercalary meristem be found?






2. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






3. ____ is the stage of cellular respiration that takes place outside of the mitochondria?






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






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






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






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


8. Which of the following is a specialized root?






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






10. Horizontal stems that grow just below the surface of the soil are called ____?






11. Which of the following is not a specialized stem?






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






13. Wood cells are composed primarily of lignin and ____?






14. When humidity is low - ___?






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






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






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






18. When humidity is low - ____ ?






19. This structure in the ovary of a flower is responsible for producing a seed?






20. Not a specialized leaf?






21. Roots differ from stems in ___?






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






23. The 'eyes' of the Irish potato are actually ____?






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






25. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis?






26. Explain the process by which plants get water from the soil into the leaves?






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






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






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






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






31. When the calyx - corolla - and stamen of a flower appear to be attached at the top of the ovary - the ovary is said to be ____?






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






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






34. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






35. 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?






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






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






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






39. 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?


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






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






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






43. Not a specialized leaf?






44. Flowering plants that complete their lie cycles in a single season are called ___?






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






46. What obvious characteristic does a deciduous plant exhibit?






47. The skin of most fruits is technically the ____?






48. The discrete patches of xylem and phloem found in monocot stems are called ____?






49. Not a specialized stem?






50. The endodermis works to direct water through its cells by having the presence of a waxy layer of suberin called the ____ around its cells n only one plane?