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Botany Basics

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1. 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?


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






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






4. ___ 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?






5. When humidity is high - ____?






6. These 'showy' modified leaves are found at the base of flowers and usually draw attention to the smaller real flowers?






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






8. Which cell type is responsible for transporting sugars in a plant?






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






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






11. Which of the following is not a specialized stem?






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






13. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






14. The ground tissue of monocots is composed of ___?






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






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






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






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






19. The osmotic response of guard cells is governed by the ___ levels in the guard cells?






20. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis?






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






22. What is attached at the node?






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






24. 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?






25. Not a specialized leaf?






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






27. 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?






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






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






30. Specialized cells in the vascular tssue of a root responsible for initiating lateral root growth are _____ cells?






31. Which of the following is a specialized root?






32. Which of the following is a specialized leaf?






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






34. White the basic chemical equation for photosynthesis indicating which parts are for the light dependent stage and which are part of the light independent stage?






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






36. A cactus is classified as a modified ____?






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






38. When humidity is low - ___?






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






40. The skin of most fruits is technically the ___?






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






42. 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 ____?






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






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






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






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






47. Vessels are different from traechids because _____?






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






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






50. A primary function of traechids is ___?