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Botany Basics

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1. Vessels are different from traechids because _____?






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






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






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






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






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






7. Not a specialized leaf?






8. 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?






9. As best as you can - briefly describe the development of vascular tissue by the lateral/vascular cambium of a stem and how that results in the production of wood?






10. Lignin is found primarily in ___?






11. Which biome has the worst 'A' horizon?






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






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






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






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






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






17. The leaves of cacti are actually ____?






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






19. When humidity is low - ___?






20. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis?






21. The osmotic response of guard cells is governed by ____ levels in the guard cells?






22. Stems differ from roots in ___?






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






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






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






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






27. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






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






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






30. When humidity is low - ____ ?






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






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






33. When a plant cell loses water and the cell membrane pulls away from the cell wall - the cell is said to be under going ____?






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






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






36. What obvious characteristic does a deciduous plant exhibit?






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






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






39. An example of a multiple fruit would be the ___?






40. 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?

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41. Roots differ from stems in ___?






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






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






44. Which soil horizon is the most important agriculturally?






45. The dermal tissues of leaves have wha specialized cells to regulate gas exchange?






46. Not a specialized leaf?






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






48. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






49. Which of the following is a specialized leaf?






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