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Botany Test

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1. Which part of the microscope would be adjusted to sharpen the image of a specimen at high magnification?






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






3. What separates during meiosis-II






4. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






5. Cladifils- modified stems that look like leaves - all parts are photosynthetic

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6. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






8. What hormone is most important in the ripening of fruits?






9. Traits that are desirable can be selected and bred for. process of selectively mating and breeding plants with particular traits.






10. How does DNA replication take place?






11. The part of an apple most often eaten by people is receptacle tissue - not ovary - making this what type of fruit?






12. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?






13. What is considered part of the protoplast?






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






15. What contains the most potential energy?






16. What is the function of the cortex in a root?






17. Vascular and seed bearing






18. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?






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






20. Bugs crawl into 'pitchers' - tiny hairs keep them from getting out - plant breaks down enzymes - and uses nitrogen. lives in places where nitrogen is limited.






21. Transfer of DNA to RNA






22. What plant tissue functions in conducting water from the roots to the leaves?






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






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






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






26. An ecosystem with similar climatic conditions on earth - such as communities of plants - animals - and soil organisms






27. The part of an apple most often eaten by people is receptacle tissue - not ovary - making this what type of fruit?






28. What is a final product of glycolysis?






29. Composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner - can be used as a natural fertilizer






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






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






32. Lives in dry - hot/cold - windy places - has fuzzy hairs to distance wind from the leaves






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






34. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






35. What phenomena explains how a photon can strike any chlorophyll molecule in the antennal complex and still reach the reaction center?






36. If an ovule is fertilized - what will it develop into?






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






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






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






40. A plant that carries two different versions of a gene for a single trait is...






41. What is the function of the cortex in a root?






42. Don't have roots or leaves - and are not producers - do not photosynthesize - and have cell walls made out of chitlin.






43. Individuals best adapted to their environment reproduce offspring. it requires variation - heritability - and selection.






44. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






45. 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?






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






47. Lives in california - it is a lily - waxy - thin - sharp leaves to stop water loss - holds water for up to 2 years.






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






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






50. Southern US - prop roots hold it in place as water moves out - it can breathe under water.