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Botany Basics

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1. A primary function of traechids is ___?






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






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






4. Stems differ from roots in ___?






5. Which soil horizon is the most important agriculturally?






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






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






8. Stems differ from roots in ____?






9. Explain why a cucumber or tomato really should be referred to as a fruit?






10. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






11. When humidity is high - ____?






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






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






15. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Which of the following is a specialized root?






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






29. The spines of cacti are specially adapted to perform 2 imp't functions for the plant - transpiration and photosynthesis. True or false?






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






31. Which of the following is a critical part of a seed providing nutrition for the embryo?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The initial step in the germination of a seed is called ____?






44. Which of the following is a specialized leaf?






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






46. ___ roots of dicots penetrate very deeply to underground water while ____ roots of monocots remain close to the surfae and facilitate rapid absorption of surface water?






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






48. 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?






49. Not a specialized leaf?






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