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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Enzymes are an example of what type of molecule?






2. What pigment is responsible for plants sensing day length?






3. Under what conditions would a plant utilize fermentation to obtain energy?






4. What is a final product of glycolysis?






5. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






6. How do bacteria reproduce?






7. Heating up bacteria until it is harmless and cannot function.






8. What are adenine - guanine - thymine - cytosine?






9. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






10. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






11. What is the main function of the roots of a corn plant?






12. Have a cell wall - no membrane - and no nucleus






13. What part of a stem can a tree live without?






14. Where in a plant is the water potential lowest?






15. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?






16. What hormone functions in stomatal closure and can be used to induce dormancy in cultivated plants?






17. What is a function of the epidermis?






18. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?






19. In what portion of a root might you find 'root hairs'?






20. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






21. Which class of organic macromolecule stores the greatest amount of potential energy?






22. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






23. What type of fruit develops from a cluster of many simple flowers?






24. What is the role of endosperm?






25. What would be a way of keeping a short-day plant from blooming?






26. How is algae different from 'true' plants?






27. Iodine can be used to test for what molecule - resulting in a blue-black color?






28. Which part of aerobic respiration results in the production of CO2?






29. Under what circumstance would sexual reproduction be more successful than asexual reproduction?






30. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?






31. Three generations of gymnosperms






32. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






33. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






34. How are the vascular bundles of a dicot arranged in the stem?






35. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?






36. What would be a way of keeping a short-day plant from blooming?






37. In what portion of a root might you find 'root hairs'?






38. In double fertilization - one sperm cell fertilized an egg cell - What does the other sperm cell fertilize?






39. What cellular processes generate short carbon chains or skeletons which plants use to assemble amino acids and lipids?






40. A piece of potato tuber is placed in a concentrated sugar-water solution. what statement BEST describes why the piece of potato shrinks in size over time?






41. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?






42. What are homologous chromosomes?






43. The ocular lens of a microscope is 10x - and the objective lens is 4x. What is the total magnification of the microscope?






44. You can determine the age of a woody branch by counting these






45. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?






46. During which phase of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur?






47. How many sperm cells does each pollen grain typically carry?






48. Transferring of the information from the DNA into the language of the mRNA.






49. Which commonly eaten food is an example of a stem?






50. What is considered part of the protoplast?