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Botany Test

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1. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?






2. A gymnosperm - lives in the desert for up to 3000 years - only grows 2 leaves - 5 feet across - they receive 1 inch of lower of rainfall per year - roots can grow under the soil at least a mile.






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






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






5. Three generations of gymnosperms






6. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?






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






8. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






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






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






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






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






13. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?






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






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






16. What type of RNA has a codon?






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






18. What separates during meiosis-II






19. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?






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






21. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






22. What are homologous chromosomes?






23. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






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






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






27. What is considered part of the protoplast?






28. Differences in type and location of human-managed ecosystems - quantity and quality of available drinking water and air may also be affected by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide






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






30. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






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






32. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






33. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?






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

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35. A tissue in Which mitosis takes place - giving rise to the secondary xylem.






36. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?






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






38. What is the role of endosperm?






39. What is a function of the epidermis?






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






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






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






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






44. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






45. During which phase of mitosis do the sister chromatids separate?






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






47. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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






49. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?






50. Which substances pass through the open stomata of a leaf?