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Botany Basics

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






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






3. Mitochondria are organelles responsible for ___?






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






5. A uniovulate carpel would contain how many seed?






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






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






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






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






10. Which of the following is a micronutrient in terms of a plant's mineral requirements for growth?






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






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






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






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






15. 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 ____?






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






17. 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 ____?






18. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






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






20. In a mature - woody dicot stem - the tissue/cell type between the xylem and the phloem is the _____?






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






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






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






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






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






26. When humidity is low - ___?






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






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






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






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






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






32. A plant placed in a beaker of salt water will ____?






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






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






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






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






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






38. Vessels are different from traechids because _____?






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






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






41. In addition to anchoring a plant - roots usually function directly in which of the following processes?






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






43. The part of the flower that eventually become seeds are the ____?






44. Which of the following is a specialized root?






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






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






47. When humidity is low - ____ ?






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






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






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