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Botany Basics

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






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






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






4. Stems differ from roots in ____?






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






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






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






8. The final electron acceptor during the process of cellular respiration is ___?






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






10. When humidity is low - ____ ?






11. Specialized epidermal cells that increase the surface area for absorption of water are ____?






12. Not a specialized stem?






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






14. Lignin is found primarily in ___?






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






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






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






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






19. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






20. Horizontal stems that produce roots and shoots are ___?






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






22. Horizontal stems that grow just below the surface of the soil are called ____?






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






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






25. A uniovulate carpel would contain how many seed?






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






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






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






29. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






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






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






32. Which of the following is a specialized root?






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






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






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






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






37. The endodermis works to direct water through its cells by having the presence of a waxy layer of suberin called the ____ around its cells n only one plane?






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






40. 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 ____?






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






42. 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?






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






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






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






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






47. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






48. Flowering plants that complete their lie cycles in a single season are called ___?






49. Roots differ from stems in ___?






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