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Botany Basics

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1. 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?






2. 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 ____?






3. When humidity is high - ____?






4. Not a specialized leaf?






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






6. Lignin is found primarily in ___?






7. Most cacti are __________ where the stem is responsible for the photosynthetic processes in the plant?






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






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






10. 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 ____?






11. If the concentration of solutes/salts outside the plant cell is greater than the concentration on the inside - water will ____?






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






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






14. 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?






15. During the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis - ____?






16. The layer of chlorenchyma cells oriented to capture optimum sunlight at the top of the leaf are the ____?






17. Roots differ from stems in ___?






18. This tissue (region) is present in monocot roots but absent in dicot roots?






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






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






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






22. Vessels are different from traechids because _____?






23. A primary function of traechids is ___?






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






25. The skin of most fruits is technically the ___?






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






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






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






29. The longest wavelength of energy reaching the earth from the sun is ___?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Which biome has the best 'A' horizon?






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






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






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






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






45. The discrete patches of xylem and phloem found in herbaceous dicot stems are called ___?






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






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






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






49. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






50. Which is a type of epidermal cell?