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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?

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2. Briefly describe the development of vascular tissu by the lateral/vascular cambium of a stem and how that results in the production of wood?






3. Actively dividing cells can be found in ___?






4. Name the 4 parts of aflower and briefly explain the process of double fertilization?






5. When the calyx - Corolla - and stamens of a flower are attached at the top of the ovary - the ovary is said to be ____?






6. What is attached at the node?






7. What obvious characteristic does a deciduous plant exhibit?






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






9. Explain the process by which plants get water from the soil into the leaves?






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






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






12. Not a specialized stem?






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






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






15. A cactus is classified as a modified ____?






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






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






18. The best soil for plant growth is ___?






19. Mitochondria are organelles responsible for ___?






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






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






22. 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?






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






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






25. Which of the following is a specialized leaf?






26. Which fruit or seed is dispersed by water?






27. Wood cells are composed primarily of cellulose and ___?






28. A uniovulate carpel would contain how many seed?






29. Pressure that develops within a living cell as a result of water entering the cell is called ____?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. An example of a multiple fruit would be the ___?






38. Most cacti are __________ where the stem is responsible for the photosynthetic processes in the plant?






39. This tissue (region) is present in monocot roots but absent in dicot roots?






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






41. Plants whose leaves fall off at the end of the growing season are ___?






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






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






44. 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?






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






46. A primary function of traechids is ___?






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






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






49. The longest wavelength of energy reaching the earth from the sun is ___?






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