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Botany Basics

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






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






3. What does the term 'C'HOPK'NS CaFe Mighty good' represent?






4. Which is a type of epidermal cell?






5. The 'eyes' of the Irish potato are actually ___?






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






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






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






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






10. Not a specialized leaf?






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






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






13. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






14. The discrete patches of xylem and phloem found in monocot stems are called ____?






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






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






17. Cells produced by the vascular cambium include ___?






18. A uniovulate carpel would contain how many seed?






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






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






21. What obvious characteristic does a deciduous plant exhibit?






22. ___ 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?






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






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






25. The best soil for plant growth is ___?






26. The space between the nodes of a stem is called the _____?






27. What is attached at the node?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Which of the following is a specialized root for storage?






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






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






43. Strawberries are an example of what kind of modified stem?






44. The discrete patches of xylem and phloem found in herbaceous dicot stems are called ___?






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






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






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






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






49. Pollen adheres to a sticky portion of the flower called the ____?






50. When humidity is high - ____?