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Botany Basics

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






2. When humidity is high - ____?






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






4. Because of greater light intensity and heat absorption on the upper surface of the leaf - the lower surface has ____?






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






6. Which of the following woud NOT be a part of the vasulcar stele?






7. 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?






8. Lignin is found primarily in ___?






9. Water conducting cels that are open at either end include ___?






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






11. Vessels are different from traechids because _____?






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






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






14. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






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






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






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






18. In which of the following are guard cells (that form stomata) not actively involved?






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. This tissue/region is present in monocot roots but absent in dicot roots?






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






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






29. Roots differ from stems in ___?






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






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






32. Not a specialized leaf?






33. A leaf with leaflets is classified as a ____ leaf while a leaf with a single blade is classified as a ____ leaf?






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






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






36. Which of the following is a specialized root?






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






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






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






40. Grasses - or monocots - are examples of plants with a ____ root system?






41. Roots differ from stems in ___?






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






43. A cactus is classified as a modified ____?






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






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






46. 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 ____?






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






48. Which of the following cell types hs food conduction as a primary function?






49. Mitochondria are organelles responsible for ___?






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