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Botany Basics

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






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






3. 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 ____?






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






5. 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?


6. A structure in the axil of an attached leaf that is apable of future growth to form a branch shoot is the ____?






7. Specialized roots that permit plants growing in water to facilitate






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






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






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






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






12. 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?






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






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






15. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






16. What obvious characteristic does a deciduous plant exhibit?






17. 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?






18. The oxygen liberated by green plants during photosynthesis comes from ___?






19. 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?






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






21. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis?






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






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






24. When humidity is high - ____?






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






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






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






28. Which of the following is a micronutrient in terms of a plant's mineral requirements for growth?






29. Which pair goes along with pollination?






30. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






31. This cell type is important in monocot and dicot roots by helping to regulate what gets into the ___?






32. A primary function of traechids is ___?






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






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






35. 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 ____?






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






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






38. Which cell types hav the primary function of photosynthesis?






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






40. The part of the flower that eventually become seeds are the ___?






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






42. Not a specialized leaf?






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






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






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






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






47. Most of the flesh of pomes comes from the __?






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






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






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